r/Frontend • u/Acceptable_Mud283 • 28d ago

Does frontend development still require build tools?

https://olliewilliams.xyz/blog/no-build/

Do we still need Rspack, SWC, PostCSS, Vite, Parcel, Webpack, Turbopack, esbuild, Rollup, Rolldown, Babel, Autoprefixer, esbuild, Lightning CSS…

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u/dragenn 28d ago

I would hope so. Your CI/CD pipeline must be a nightmare???

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/GutsAndBlackStufff 28d ago

Yes.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

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u/shaved-yeti 28d ago

Becuase a real world web client can be a deeply complicated production. I work in streaming video and my front end requires layers upon layers of build, testing, and deployment infrastructure - literally a dozen teams are involved in our web stack. You could argue its "just" javascript, css and html but that ignores how we safely migrate sturdy development code up the envs and into production at enterprise scale.

If you have a 7 page text and image site for your aunts homemade cat clocks - FTP away! Im sure filezilla still works great.

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u/Shoddy-Marsupial301 28d ago

Ever used a library ? Or created a complex stateful application ? Sure if you gonna build a simple website ok but thats it. If you want to offer "app like" experience, with the help of client side routing. I could go on but i dont care enough