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Do you use any modern JS tools? Webpack? Require or import? Babel? In my experience any es6 tooling is much of a bigger pain compared to coffeescript tooling.
by molszanski 9y ago
Do you use any modern JS tools? Webpack? Require or import? Babel? In my experience any es6 tooling is much of a bigger pain compared to coffeescript tooling.
- jondubois 9y agoI'm full stack so when I saw the monstrosity of the React ecosystem rear its ugly head a couple of years ago, I retreated to back-end work mostly (I'm waiting out the storm). For my side projects I currently use the Polymer framework so I don't need a bundler, a compile step or 100 pointless dependencies. The only compilation that happens is when I vulcanize the front end for production (purely as an optimization). No transpiling happens when debugging and this saves me so much time and frustratiom - I just cannot bring myself to use React or TypeScript.
- molszanski 9y agoThat is kinda the point. CoffeeScript pipeline is literally nothing compared to modern a frontend pipeline complexity. And it brings tons of goodies. That is why people use it, even now.