[shadowmint]

You can have external JavaScript dependency tracking, but you're not solving the problem, youre just moving it from one place to another.

If you want to manually manage it (or manage it outside of js), you can... but complaining that there are various tools that automate that process seems pretty nonsensical to me. Tools that automate things are good.

... besides, what are you even talking about. Requirejs config isn't that bad. If you want to grumble we can start with grunt files and (ugh) painfully repurposed make files.

[wyuenho]

Solving the problem requires ES6 modules and friends to take over this entire space. Which might not happen in a while.

Lot of tools automate things, few do it well.

ReqireJS isn't that bad? Compared to what? Maven's pom.xml?