I've got a number of vanilla JS, HTML, CSS libraries that work only from within the browser, using the standard tags to include them. For me, not having a buil

I've got a number of vanilla JS, HTML, CSS libraries that work only from within the browser, using the standard tags to include them. For me, not having a build-step means that, yes, I miss out on typescript, but the upsides are easier to read, easier debugging and lower cognitive burden during both writing and reading the application. It means I will never, like the author in the article, spend $X weeks, and then spend a further $Y dollars just to build something "modern". My "modern looking" applications are developed, and then tested, on a machine from 2010 (1st-gen i7) that has 16GB of RAM and oodles of slow spinning-rust disks, and it isn't painful at all.[1] [1] It is, in fact, quite nice when I see a client use their system from their own PC and it's just a little bit snappier than I am used to.