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Any path for using bridgetown without Webpacker & NodeJS? #436

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I understand where you're coming from, believe me!

I don't think there's all that much complexity unless you try to push things in wild directions. To be honest, not having a frontend build step actually introduces complexity. How do you add Shoelace? Lit? Ruby2JS? Bulma? A search component? A carousel?

Bridgetown's goal is for 80% of use cases 80% of the time, you just type a yarn add command, stick an import in your index.js and maybe index.css, and that's it. You can go from zero to frontend hero in minutes. Would it be any easier with import maps and CDNs and no local Node install? Maybe at first, but then you quickly fall off a cliff.

We're definitely looking into implementing esbuil…

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