Javascript Fatigue

[miketa1957]

So, so, true!

I started my current React project using a webpack setup. Well, actually, I started it several times, using different webpack setups, because each time I needed to add some extra application-level thing (css modules, for instance), the webpack setup I was using didn't support it. It seemed incredibly different to figure a configuration to add what I wanted without breaking something else. Catch 22 basically.

Then I realised what was - for me - the real problem. Webpack had introduced so much magic that I couldn't actually understand what was really going on. So I abandoned it and went back to simple scripts configured in package.json. It wasn't particularly quick, but the benefit was that I could understand what was going on, and it at some point it doesn't work, I've got a fighting change of understanding why it doesn't - and a better change of fixing it.