I had to learn how to use gulp and npm and browserify and and and ohmygodthelistgoeson,... My point is that you shouldn't have to learn a long list of tools i

I had to learn how to use gulp and npm and browserify and and and ohmygodthelistgoeson,... My point is that you shouldn't have to learn a long list of tools in order to learn the underlying framework the project is trying to introduce. I can easily remove stuff I don't need, even when I don't know how it works. But adding JS tooling myself? What a disaster. Really? I've walked in on quite a few existing gulp/grunt/insert-latest-hotness setups and found them incredibly hard to follow (let alone unwind) without a solid understanding of these tools.