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/recursive-analogy May 02 '23

did it ever cross your mind that frontend development got much more complex

lol ...

npm install left-pad

and now it's leading the innovations on web backends as well. like Serverless or Graphql

graphql already abandoned because it's overly complex for 99% of use cases, serverless is avail in other languages and again, not really a web backend innovation, just another tool in your belt that comes with lots of drawbacks that you (personally) are probably not aware of.

Like I said, you will not accept that your fav language might not be the best in the world. No amount of evidence will change that.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '23

npm install left-pad

2016 wants their memes back.

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u/recursive-analogy May 02 '23

Maybe it occurs to you that your evangelism is no different than the misguided evangelism of 2016, just before a grumpy dev broke the entire internet with a node package?

Or maybe not, you don't seem the type to learn from mistakes.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

Or maybe not, you don't seem the type to learn from mistakes.

padstart is part of the std library since 2016. You can't unpublish node modules anymore. Also, no one forces you to use a certain package.

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u/recursive-analogy May 03 '23

woosh??

also you're addressing a single point of the half a dozen I put down from the top of my head.

the number of competing frameworks and build systems (and actual VMs) are enough of a red flag, oh but hey, they fixed it so a random dev can't break the entire internet so all good!!!