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Re:Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers by tannhaeuser on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:07PM (#13942374)
That's what every sane developer does and has been doing since the beginning of Node.js including tj (of express.js, koa, ... fame) [1] so you're in good company.

I remember a hilarious comment about "build systems becoming obsolete in year" (supposedly referring to the like of webpack, babel, grunt/gulp/broccoli, css.next if anyone is actually using it, etc.).

The newest trend as of a year ago is to ... use shell scripting [2].

[1]: https://github.com/tj/mmake

[2]: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/why-i-left-gulp-and-grunt-fo...

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Re:Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers by nawitus on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:41PM (#13945006)
In my experience npm scripts become way too complex on real world applications. But maybe I simply work on apps complex enough for this to become an issue. I've used grunt, gulp, webpack and npm scripts in multiple projects. Still not sure which is my favourite, probably gulp.
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