Do you think everything would be easier if we went back if we stopped using them at all?
I think it depends on the context, but yes. I've made some sites for friends and family, where I don't work on them for a while, but every now and then I have to dip in and make a small change they want, and after experiencing this problem, I've abandoned build tools for these projects. Plain old HTML, JavaScript and CSS in the browser.
Sure it means I can't do certain complicated logic as easily, but it's never actually needed for these kinds of projects. Maintenance is key.
I think if I were an agency or a shop I could probably find another form of consistency of process which does use build tools, but as I am not that, vanilla all the way.
From humble beginnings at an MSP, I've adventured through life as a sysadmin, into an engineer, and finally landed as a developer focused on fixing problems with automation.
It doesn't sound like they're talking about one-off family-built websites, but an organization that needs CI/CD to reliably build and deploy their work. One crucial thing they're missing, though, is pinning their dependencies and dev/prod environment repros.
It may be worth investing in containers which will complicate orchestration of deployments, but will make everything consistent.
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I think it depends on the context, but yes. I've made some sites for friends and family, where I don't work on them for a while, but every now and then I have to dip in and make a small change they want, and after experiencing this problem, I've abandoned build tools for these projects. Plain old HTML, JavaScript and CSS in the browser.
Sure it means I can't do certain complicated logic as easily, but it's never actually needed for these kinds of projects. Maintenance is key.
I think if I were an agency or a shop I could probably find another form of consistency of process which does use build tools, but as I am not that, vanilla all the way.
It doesn't sound like they're talking about one-off family-built websites, but an organization that needs CI/CD to reliably build and deploy their work. One crucial thing they're missing, though, is pinning their dependencies and dev/prod environment repros.
It may be worth investing in containers which will complicate orchestration of deployments, but will make everything consistent.