Honestly, it's... not terrible? It's hackish, sure, but the NSA website's frontend isn't a huge app where good software engineering needs to be practiced - the

Honestly, it's... not terrible? It's hackish, sure, but the NSA website's frontend isn't a huge app where good software engineering needs to be practiced - the code does what it needs to do, was likely written quite quickly, and doesn't need the likes of webpack to build. In my core projects I'll use Ember or React+Redux, but where I just need a couple hundred lines of one-off code for e.g. a marketing site... why not some hackish jQuery?