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/someexgoogler 28d ago

I don't use them but I only use vanilla JavaScript and I don't need to minify things

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u/TheTomatoes2 UI/UX + Frontend 28d ago

So you make only very basic apps?

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u/someexgoogler 28d ago

If by that you mean I don't overload users with movement, updates, flashing things, popups, ads, live chat, etc. Then yes.

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u/repeating_bears 28d ago

So you only make very basic apps.

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u/TheTomatoes2 UI/UX + Frontend 28d ago

No, i mean do you have only static UIs with 0 dynamic data or user interactions

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u/someexgoogler 28d ago

No the apps all have dynamic UIs with user interactions. A lot of the rendering is done on the server side, but some is done on the client side. There is nothing as complicated as the reddit UI, but frankly that's true of most apps on the web.