Because when it actually works it's a very refreshing development experience, once you get used to it you never want to return to the crappy "let me refresh thi

Because when it actually works it's a very refreshing development experience, once you get used to it you never want to return to the crappy "let me refresh this page to see my changes" workflow. But hey, tons of people swear by the simple setup they claim to understand; good for them. As someone who don't work on frontend stuff professionally, I wouldn't pretend I "understand" esbuild and can always fix it when it breaks. Ironically, TFA presents an issue with this simple setup that the author could not figure out without help from experts: > I was really baffled by this, but I was eventually able to figure it out with some help from people who understood Javascript.