I didn’t touch “web dev” since php/dream-weaver/myspace era.

I started working with some web developers for a simple project recently, my mock product was built with vue.js using the standard way of “including” it: But what really threw me for a loop was that the web developers told me that that’s wrong, they are now _compiling_ (Or, semantically “packing”) JavaScript blobs to make even very simple websites.

I don’t know why we as a community have started doing that, but it feels like an anti-pattern, it makes adding new dependencies opaque and we can very quickly end up including dozens and dozens of lines of code which must all be rendered by every device that comes into contact with my site.

Often this happens because we want only a small bit of the functionality too.