What a fantastic post! I rarely do frontend web development. Perhaps only once every year or two. I don't follow frontend development much, and every single tim

What a fantastic post! I rarely do frontend web development. Perhaps only once every year or two. I don't follow frontend development much, and every single time I need to write some javascript the preferred tech stack of the day is completely different. There are so many tools, so many different ways of doing things. It's completely overwhelming. So I end up doing the same thing the author was doing: just use <script> tags. If I need a library I try to download a minified version of it and put it in a script tag. This is usually good enough for me as I typically use JS for very small things. “pretend it’s 2005”. It works and if something breaks I know how to solve it. For the kind of JS projects that I work on, learning the tooling can easily take 3X the time I need to write the project itself. I know that there are several meta-tools that will automatically configure all other tools for you, but I really dislike them. They usually end up downloading half of the entire internet, and when you move an inch from their preferred defaults everything becomes a nightmare. Esbuild seems like the perfect tool for people like me. It's simple, fast and it allows me to import things in JS! I'm definitely going to look at it next time I'm writing some frontend code.