I fucking hate Babel

Well IDK the entire NodeJS ecosystem seems pretty fucked up to me, especially with the dependency management.

I can wield it to an extent to make things manageable, but that’s where my abilities end.

Wtf is this 🤨

me too! I tried Vite recently, won't be going back!

not sure what are you working on, but if frontend, then -> https://dev.to/richardbray/...

@bigmonsterlover legacy stuff

why do you have to use it? I don't use it, and I'm happy

@kiki legacy stuff

@ScriptCoded what kind of stuff exactly? 15 years old JacaScript still works perfectly fine in modern browsers

@kiki old micro services that all fun with Babel and we don't have capacity to fix 🤷

@ScriptCoded oh, so you use babel for backend?

@kiki yup...

@ScriptCoded F, my brother

Imagine being me.

Imagine seeing PHP and its a-file-is-a-route approach.

Imagine node, and javascript, and react and all shitting on this approach.

Now imagine being me and seeing SSR libs that implement....file based routing, and think it is the new hotness.

All things old are made new again.

Thats why we're now doing assembly in fucking web browsers.

@Wisecrack image not everything being an exposed route by default...