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Discussion on: I hate front-end build processes

 
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Kasey Speakman

I was using a starter template, but the author since stopped maintaining it. The most recent thing I used was Create Elm App. Big win with that is that it sets up debugging for you. So you can see the state of the model after each message and go back to examine a previous state. I knew it was out there, but I had never used it before.

I did have to modify CEA builds to turn off things I didn't want. For instance, this app will be internal and requires a live API, so it does not make sense to use a service worker / PWA. (I can see the caching resulting in support calls.) There's no configuration to turn it off, so I had to eject and change some build scripts. (I made notes because Future Me will forget what exactly to do.)

I will probably continue to use CEA going forward because it does so many thing right.