AMD was a great module system precisely because the build step was optional. Running the build helped on large projects (for bundling, minifying, etc.), but you

AMD was a great module system precisely because the build step was optional. Running the build helped on large projects (for bundling, minifying, etc.), but you could literally deploy your frontend's `src` directory to production and expect it to work as-is. A nice side-effect was that local development only required a simple file http service. I'm hoping ES module tooling, import maps, etc. get us back to that point.