I think you are being a bit disingenuous to suggest it could be a framework. Is there a framework or JS target language project you are aware of that reference

I think you are being a bit disingenuous to suggest it could be a framework. Is there a framework or JS target language project you are aware of that references itself as "front end tooling"? I wanna say it's been a decade of front end build tools that have come and gone (or stayed.. we still use a grunt file from 2013) and they all do more or less the same things a front end dev needs.