This is a great start. I too got frustrated with the overwhelming complexity of the "boilerplate" or "starter kits" that have all the bells and whistles. Having

This is a great start. I too got frustrated with the overwhelming complexity of the "boilerplate" or "starter kits" that have all the bells and whistles. Having something very simple that you can exit if necessary is nice. The approach I took was just to document each tool or plugin that I may want to add to my project since it is generally very quick to do so: https://github.com/bruth/modern-javascript-starter https://github.com/bruth/modern-javascript-starter