Sadly, current trends in front-end dev (yes, I'm looking at you, React) make this pleasure a thing of the past. The front-end tooling required to produce today'

Sadly, current trends in front-end dev (yes, I'm looking at you, React) make this pleasure a thing of the past. The front-end tooling required to produce today's web apps is soul-destroying even for seasoned devs who have survived Enterprise Java config hell. Maven's a piece of cake compared to webpack.