lightweight frontend build tools

Three years ago I bemoaned the need for build systems for frontend work - or maybe more specifically, the assumption many libraries now make that you won't be solely relying on <script src="" />.

Asking around, besides parcel that I wrote about above, there's Snowpack and Vite. Here's an article comparing them.

I do miss the wild west days. I'm slow to really drink the assumption that "if something is worth making it's worth putting in git with a build process to deploy".