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Ah, so I guess it's just some over-engineered piece of code. Again I'm no web dev, so very limited JavaScript experience. Well, at least the author made it cle

• krapp 6y ago
  Yeah, unfortunately the entire javascript ecosystem is ridiculously over-engineered. In my day, all you needed was a text editor. Now you need a package manager and an abritrarily deep dependency tree of libraries, a complex toolchain and a test framework to write Hello World... often in another language that gets compiled into javascript. It was a simple, almost elegant language. You looked at a JQuery module, and you could understand it, modify it on your own, and use it without needing to understand the quirks of sixteen distinct build systems that would just be obsolete by next month. No one could delete a repository and break your software. There wasn't a single company and a single package manager basically controlling everything. There was competition and innovation and... I'll be in the angry dome if anyone needs me.