In today’s modernization epic, we say goodbye to Grunt and Browserify, two very old-school ways of orchestrating the build process for JavaScript and CSS. Their place is taken by Vite, which is faster and comes with some nice development tooling.
As a developer, before this change, if I wanted to change some JS and see it live, I would have to stop the server and rebuild the code. Now, I can simply save the JS file, and Vite will take care of everything in the background.
As part of this, we’ve started to modernize the frontend code using JavaScript modules, which Vite is much more comfortable with than the older require syntax.
The production site is powered by this new Vite tooling; if you notice any issues, let us know!