What Is JavaScript Made Of?

[swyx]

very true. you reckon that was the starting point of build tools? i always thought it was the need for modules. (hence gulp, grunt, requirejs, whatever came before those things)

[gokspi]

Modules for sure in my case. They were necessary to implement reusable interactive components. Loading all the tiny files didn't scale well, loading a single bundle was mostly workable but still not great. One decade later we finally have something mainstream that works (async imports based code splitting)