๐Ÿ”— Simon Willison: No build frontend is so much more fun

If you’ve found web development frustrating over the past 5-10 years, here’s something that has worked worked great for me: give yourself permission to avoid any form of frontend build system. [โ€ฆ] The joy came flooding back to me! It turns out browser APIs are really good now.

None of my frontend projects are used for โ€œrealโ€ things, so Iโ€™m not speaking from authority here. But I donโ€™t care: I still think the worst part of frontend development are all the crummy build tools. Remove them all and web development can be really fun.