I think he just means you have to build before deploying and while developing. Even if that build takes fractions of a second and is trivially scaffolded and au

I think he just means you have to build before deploying and while developing. Even if that build takes fractions of a second and is trivially scaffolded and automated in a modern context, it’s still technically an extra step. There was a time I might have agreed with that take but I’ve since embraced the build since unless we’re talking about the kind of JavaScript you’d embed in a single blog article and then promptly forget about, chances are you’ll want to introduce build tools eventually.