The thing I don't like the most about frontend is setting up a stack. Often I wish things were more explicit and less magic. It feels like a lot of a projects'

The thing I don't like the most about frontend is setting up a stack. Often I wish things were more explicit and less magic. It feels like a lot of a projects' meta state is managed poorly in the filesystem. One concrete thing I can think of, when Typescript transpiles to dist/*, it is not cleaned up from last time it transpiled. So if you directory structure changes this can lead to strange issues like running an old version a .js file without realizing it. A very high level/magic library I use provides no way to configure its initial setup through javascript. To do automated setup I have to write a config file to disk to work around it. (The library is otherwise great, and I should report this now that I think about it!) Other than that I kinda like the messiness of frontend.