47 ms·
The appealing thing about not having a build pipeline is not having it. Not having another thing to maintain and update/upgrade/debug. I've gone through grunt,
by SahAssar 7y ago
The appealing thing about not having a build pipeline is not having it. Not having another thing to maintain and update/upgrade/debug. I've gone through grunt, gulp, webpack and parcel. Somewhere along the way I realized that with es6 imports and css variables I don't really need it.
I've talked with frontend devs who only worked on projects with build steps about this and they often seem perplexed and surprised by just how simple it can be if you don't make it complex.
- korm 7y agoCan you imagine a modern SoundCloud, Spotify, Facebook, Airbnb or Slack without a build pipeline? There's nothing appealing about that. It's nice and simple for small projects but let's not act like putting a script tag in HTML is some divine wisdom that newbies don't understand.
- SahAssar 7y agoYes I can. All of those except for facebook (because facebook is a sprawling platform) seem reasonable to be able to build without a build system. And with using es6 modules it's not "putting a script tag in HTML", you have a proper module loading system without needing any builds or libs. I'm not saying it's some sort of lost knowledge like Damascus steel, I'm just saying that many people these days are so caught up into the current dogma of JS that they never consider a simpler but still modern path.