![]() Some decent amount of knowledge around task runners (Grunt/Gulp) is required to do modern web development. Unfortunately, this is where we are right now. Which packages do I add? What was that syntax again? Is this repo's documentation out of date? LIFE HAS NO MEANING. Yeoman tried very hard to solve this problem, and did the best job of it so far, but I still want to punch myself in the throat every time I have to setup a new Grunt or Gulp file. Honestly, the amount of tooling that exists around just JavaScript and web development is hilariously out of control. Most of us are using transpilers, concatenation, uglification, directory watching, module systems and more. Unfortunately, the lack of an abstracted build system is still a problem that plagues web developers to this day. When I'm coding, I want to be able to File / New Project / ROCK AND ROLL! ![]() Someone once told me, "You should understand how MSBuild works." Should I? Isn't that what I have Visual Studio for? So I don't have to look at that XML file? Pass on that. One of the things that I've always loved about Visual Studio is how it extracts the tedium of builds. ![]()
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