I look forward to the post coming into my RSS reader :)
> they didn't have to do stuff like chase down NPM problems or debug Webpack.
The ship has well and truly sailed on that one. Building a reactivity framework into the browser isn't going to solve dependency management or transpiling.
But I wonder if ESM is going to change this game a bit. Now that dependencies are statically analysable in the page source, a CloudFlare or similar could sit between the "source" and the browser and do intelligent caching and bundling transparently.
> they didn't have to do stuff like chase down NPM problems or debug Webpack.
The ship has well and truly sailed on that one. Building a reactivity framework into the browser isn't going to solve dependency management or transpiling.
But I wonder if ESM is going to change this game a bit. Now that dependencies are statically analysable in the page source, a CloudFlare or similar could sit between the "source" and the browser and do intelligent caching and bundling transparently.