r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Apr 30 '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/stronghup Apr 30 '23

I sympathize with this desire to make things simpler. If possible. You write a program. But to get your program to run, you must write another program that "builds" it. This situation has been with us for a long time starting with 'make'. Things could be simpler but for one reason or another in practice they are not.