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Graham Cox

I used to hate them too. I used to carefully craft them in far too much time to do what was needed and nothing more.

My latest project uses Create React App, and is powered from Maven using the Maven Frontend Plugin. The backend is a Kotlin project. This works fantastically well. I literally issue "mvn install" and a few minutes later I have the frontend and backend built, all tests executed, and artifacts that are ready to go onto deployment servers.

I actually even build Docker containers for them, but right now only for end to end testing purposes.