<story><title>Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler</title><url>https://www.snowpack.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simplecto</author><text>I really enjoyed react when it first came out and there was little fussing with browserify (3-4 years ago).&lt;p&gt;But now this tooling is out of hand. I threw up my hands and found sanity again in simplicity (my username namesake).&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * Django
  * jquery
  * intercoolerjs (https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;intercoolerjs.org)
  * plain old docker
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
It is like war-games. The only winning move is not to play.&lt;p&gt;Now I deploy apps with no more than 100 lines of JS.&lt;p&gt;Again, not prescriptive, just my own journey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cr0sh</author><text>I was once working on a small tool that I tried different iterations of using a small variety of approaches; I tried implementing it in bash, perl, python, ES6 JS (classes and more), and a few other methods (I think at one point I even tried a LibreOffice spreadsheet).&lt;p&gt;But I kept getting mired and &amp;quot;stuck&amp;quot; in how I should architect things, or what framework to use, or this or that. I eventually decided that I wanted it to be a browser-based app of some sort (thus the road of ES6) - but then I started to wonder what tooling to use there. Lots of questions, etc - and I never got that far with it.&lt;p&gt;I eventually wised up and realized that it didn&amp;#x27;t matter what I chose - what I needed was the application to work. Who cares about frameworks, requirejs, css frameworks, etc - I just wanted something working. So I stepped back...and decided to chuck all of that away.&lt;p&gt;I ended up with a basic webpage, with a script tag and the code inside that - nothing fancy, purely procedural, old-school javascript functions, tied to events. Bare bones, basic.&lt;p&gt;...and I made real progress for the first time.&lt;p&gt;Basically, by regressing to the relative simplicity of Javascript back from the 1990s, I was able to get my tool finally going, without having to worry about the last two decades of cruft around that language. Now, I could have also done it using Python or anything else, in the same manner - but again, I wanted it to be browser based.&lt;p&gt;As you note, my own journey, and not something I&amp;#x27;d tell anyone else to do (and certainly not something meant for a production environment!) - but for myself, and my need, this fit the bill. I&amp;#x27;m still working on it; I figure when I complete it proper-like, I can go back and refactor it to something more respectable. Or maybe not.&lt;p&gt;After all, if it works, why try to break it? In the end, I want the results from the tool - who cares what it looks like under the hood, so long as it works.</text></comment>
<story><title>Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler</title><url>https://www.snowpack.dev/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simplecto</author><text>I really enjoyed react when it first came out and there was little fussing with browserify (3-4 years ago).&lt;p&gt;But now this tooling is out of hand. I threw up my hands and found sanity again in simplicity (my username namesake).&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  * Django
  * jquery
  * intercoolerjs (https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;intercoolerjs.org)
  * plain old docker
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
It is like war-games. The only winning move is not to play.&lt;p&gt;Now I deploy apps with no more than 100 lines of JS.&lt;p&gt;Again, not prescriptive, just my own journey.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmsp</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re a fan of this type of libs, you should also check out &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stimulusjs.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stimulusjs.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;umbrellajs.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;umbrellajs.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>