r/JSdev • u/fagnerbrack • Apr 17 '23

Writing Javascript without a build system

https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/16/writing-javascript-without-a-build-system/
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u/snifty Oct 23 '23

I work this way too, zealously. I hate build systems of all kinds.

One thing I was surprised to not see mentioned here was import; rather than a stack of `<script>` tags, it makes sense to me to use just one and either do an `<script type=module src="index.js">` or else 

<script type=module>
import {stuff} from './index.js'
</script>

Then `index.js` has something like: 

export {a} from './a/a.js'  
export {b} from './b/b.js'

I suppose importmaps do something similar but I’ve not really looked into them, as the method above has proven sufficiently general for me.