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This seems so fragmented, even before you consider all the other module loaders, transpilers and toolchains.

I'm a senior frontend developer and I find this side of JavaScript truly bewildering.

Agreed on there being too many tools. Thankfully most of them are starting to embrace the same core feature: writing npm modules. Small bits of code that you publish once to npm, and then reuse across many projects and potentially many build/workflow systems.

The main issue is really the lack of module concept in Javascript core. I hope things get better with ES6, because at this point it will be much, much easier to write a library to load them all, without relying on "proprietary" loaders.

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