The Eternal Sunshine of the Zero Build Pipeline
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Argues for a bundle-free developer workflow: serve es modules directly to the browser, transform legacy CommonJS on the fly, and use HTTP caching plus HMR so development starts in near-zero startup time. Demonstrations use Snowpack, Vite and related bare-module tools (Vite using esbuild for dev and Rollup for production), power a live-preview service in a web worker, and migrate a six-year banking codebase in a few hours; tradeoffs include missing MDX, occasional missing-dependency errors, and extra worker complexity.
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