From HTML to Webpack

/1999 1. Create HTML markup 2. Add some CSS 3. Publish /2017 1. Create HTML markup 2. Add some CSS 3. Choose build tool 4. Add Babel 5. Add Webpack 6. Add generators of all sorts 7. Add React (because everyone likes React) 8. Pay five CDN$ to not get slash dotted 9. ??? 10. Publish

A presentation slide compares publishing a simple HTML page in 1999 with the much more complicated web-development workflow of 2017, involving build tools, Babel, Webpack, generators, React, and CDN costs. The joke is that modern frontend development has become absurdly elaborate for the same basic task, so the image is used as a sarcastic reaction to JavaScript tooling complexity. EN: A presentation slide compares publishing a simple HTML page in 1999 with the much more complicated web-development workflow of 2017, involving build tools, Babel, Webpack, generators, React, and CDN costs. The joke is that modern frontend development has become absurdly elaborate for the same basic task, so the image is used as a sarcastic reaction to JavaScript tooling complexity.

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