It's not so bad if you're doing it professionally because you pretty much set it up once and you're done. But yeah it's annoying for one-off projects or if web

It's not so bad if you're doing it professionally because you pretty much set it up once and you're done. But yeah it's annoying for one-off projects or if web dev isn't your main job. That said you can avoid it. I wrote a website using Fresh (https://fresh.deno.dev/ https://fresh.deno.dev/) and that was the only thing I needed. Incredibly simple compared to the usual Node/Webpack mess. Plus you're writing in Typescript, and can use TSX. I probably would set up ESLint if multiple people were working on the project. But you can definitely start without anything else.