There's a kind of debugging I call "flailing"—a desperate, theory-less "jiggling the handle" one can stumble into after extended failure. Found myself there today on hour 3 of JS build system BS. In such situations I find Pirsig's treatise on "gumption traps" a good antidote.
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If Bob had known about webpack it would have been called Zen and the Art of Website Maintenance.
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My grief today was indeed caused by Webpack. The solution to my grief was moving to Rollup, which also required a configuration file about 1/4 the length.
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Bob would tell you that Webpack and Rollup are both expressions of the same underlying property. Your decision to switch was a form of Quality. The act of switching from Webpack to Rollup moved you from a pattern of static Quality to the knife-edge of dynamic Quality.
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I really like that I can't tell if you're joking.
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