Do you still use gulp or is it webpack nowadays?
Using webpack resulted in some of the most painful experiences of supporting serious production software in my career.
The progress and maturity of JS tooling/DX as a result of stuff like esbuild and Vite, or Typescript more generally, can not he understated.
For people not doing frontend it can seem like a neverending series of new stuff but there is a very rational and tangible level of progress being made. Especially for serious JS devs not jumping on hype trains.
I don't miss the days of gulp and webpack at all and I don't blame anyone for hating on JS if they experienced using them professionally.
Now Vite seems to be all the rage? But is it a bundler?
Wepack seems to be very hard to configure. Looks like nginx config vs caddy config.
Rather, one would opt for something like vite, the spiritual successor to react-scripts, that bundles all of these tools together with some good defaults/plugins, a means to configure them, and usually also some kind of dev server with hot module reloading, for a complete developer experience using your preferred toolchain.
Check out 'parcel' for something pretty modern, universal, and low effort, IMHO.
I never invested too much time in understanding webpack but it does feel like fighting it a lot of the time when I want to change something in my personal projects.
Care to share some anecdotes of those painful experiences?