"Rube Goldberg" is the best description I've heard for a JS dev stack. So true. Its so awful. But its so much better than it used to be and I pray it continues to improve.
I hear what you're saying. They can be really finicky. I've had very good luck using it all cleanly without issue. I especially love binding vscode to an open browser so that I use vscode for all the inspection, breakpoints, etc.
But I also experienced your lamentations. It took a long time for me to get it all working. Sourcemaps were so unreliable years ago. Now they just seem to work, having learned all the painful lessons about configuration.
There still aren't any sane defaults and the ground won't stop shifting. But now that I have it working, it works great.
I hear what you're saying. They can be really finicky. I've had very good luck using it all cleanly without issue. I especially love binding vscode to an open browser so that I use vscode for all the inspection, breakpoints, etc.
But I also experienced your lamentations. It took a long time for me to get it all working. Sourcemaps were so unreliable years ago. Now they just seem to work, having learned all the painful lessons about configuration.
There still aren't any sane defaults and the ground won't stop shifting. But now that I have it working, it works great.