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Thanks. I did see that it was covered later as I continued reading the article and looking back I see that it's in the TOC as well so maybe I just didn't pay enough attention. I think just hyperlinking to that section would do the trick (and maybe on the first occurrence a small comment like (covered below) but that might not be necessary.

Thanks for the response and more importantly the article! It covered exactly all the points that were opaque to me about frontend build processes. I've also forwarded it to a couple of other backend devs that I know.