In a future post, I will go over how web developers needs to start taking iteration time more seriously as the influx of new tools and frameworks starts to bloa

In a future post, I will go over how web developers needs to start taking iteration time more seriously as the influx of new tools and frameworks starts to bloat up build times. The newer tools in web dev have crushed iteration times to a fraction of what they used to be. A combination of things like esbuild, fast refresh, yarn's offline cache, and a few other bits can get your iteration times on a site you're manually testing down to milliseconds to both build and update (literally). Decent devs have been writing tests for years; the test runners could be a bit faster but people are working on that as well. The React app I'm working on at the moment takes well under a second to build, under 10 seconds to run the test suite (could be a sign I need more coverage..), and milliseconds to update the code in the browser in dev mode. It's nice to work with. It's not even clever or special. A default Next.js app will do that. Create-React-app 5 launched a few days ago with more of the tooling too. In Vue things like Vite are based on the new fast tooling and it works well. Vue dev work is fast. SvelteKit even goes further by using Snowpack to remove the bundling step entirely. Snowpack claims a default refresh time of 50ms. I really hope the author's article about web dev is simply "Yeah, update your tools and you'll be fine."