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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by monkey_monkey on Sunday July 03, 2022 @12:43PM (#31969031)
"Next gen front end tooling" - for anyone with some vague knowledge of front end development would understand that this is going to be something like webpack, or mix, or grunt, or gulp.

Not every front page has to assume the person going to it knows nothing.

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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by finfinfin on Sunday July 03, 2022 @12:49PM (#31969068)
Front-end tooling that I have to run on the server? Even people familiar with the JS ecosystem might be confused by that.
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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by matt89 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @01:07PM (#31969195)
I believe you are overexaggerating. It has always been true that you needed some kind of local server when doing frontend development. There are multiple browser mechanism that would not work in any way other than when rendering html/css/js that was returned from a server.

Consequently a build tool (or dev-tool) that offers you a dev-server is really nothing weird in frontend development world. Same as 10-15 years ago when using jQuery and PHP and you would use XAMPP or LAMPP.

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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by finfinfin on Sunday July 03, 2022 @02:03PM (#31969658)
Just google “front-end tools” and look at the few top results. There are many tools for front-end development that are not build tools or have to run on the server.
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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by monkey_monkey on Sunday July 03, 2022 @03:46PM (#31970420)
You don't have to run this on a server. This would never run on a server. This would be used in your local dev environment.
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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by wonnage on Sunday July 03, 2022 @03:57PM (#31970514)
your local dev environment is running a server
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Re:Vite – Next Generation Front End Tooling by monkey_monkey on Sunday July 03, 2022 @04:04PM (#31970555)
Clearly the word server is the same, but that's not really what's meant by a server in front end / back end developer discussions.
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