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I'm not a professional web developer, but I do write web apps and WASM stuff. With JS being decent since ES6, do you really need all this crap? And if you do, are you going to use someone's side project that they refer to as "Dark Souls of web frameworks"?

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Original author here. No, you don't need all of it; everything is optional (as stated in the article). It's just a boilerplate with some tools and conventions, so "using it" has little implications, I think. Other than that, I'm just trying to have fun out here :)

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