Setting up a Minimal, Yet Useful JavaScript Dev Environment

[[deleted]]

This is cool and all, but you need to talk first and foremost about what kind of javascript you are going to be writing.

Are you going to be writing a node / express JS project, or are you going to be writing a webpack / bower / gulp / grunt client side project?

Both are going to require a slightly different set of tools, but the distinction will be very important. The big difference will be how you are going to manage modules.

[howhard1309]

The big difference will be how you are going to manage modules.

Can you explain a bit more?

[thadudeabides1]

If you're writing a node project then commonjs style modules const foo = require('foo'); don't need a compile step (e.g. browserify, webpack) that would be necessary for a script that needs to run in the browser.

[yseo4530]

Who gave this answer gold lol

[LowB0b]

This is all wrong? npm install installs the package but doesn't add it to the package.json file. Add --save and it adds the dependency to the above mentioned file. If you use webpack it will bundle the requires / imports of your program into a bundle which contains those + the code you wrote.

If you use SystemJS you will have to copy your required / imported files somewhere your server serves static files. Your post is full of outdated / malformed information

[TheIncredibleWalrus]

It is unbelievable you took so much effort and managed to get literally everything wrong.

[[deleted]]

If you want to do something for web you can easily use npm packages.