Tip for anyone who's been put off building stuff with JS due to the terrifying array of build tools and packages and framework choices you have to make these days

You don't have to use any of that stuff!

A few years ago I gave myself permission to ignore it all and just use default browser environments... and it turns out to be a really fun, productive, dare I say delightful environment to work in

Now that we can ignore IE compatibility modern JS and browser APIs are really nice to work with!

@simon I loathe the tooling required to use JavaScript in the browser. I get your point, but what about external libraries/dependencies? Not everything is available as a browser ready combined file.

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Probably the best way to solve that is create a ES lib that exposes it. Not fun, but you only have to do it once. Having a repo of NPM libs recompiled as ES modules would be a dream. Or, much better, an automatic tool, if possible.

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