JavaScript Modularity Shaming

1 · David Nolen · Jan. 6, 2015, midnight
Pete Hunt of React fame recently got into an online discussion about the pros and cons of Webpack vs. Browserify. In the discussion he inadvertently coins a hilarious term for a form of rhetoric in some circles of the JavaScript community - "Modularity Shaming". React itself has been on the receiving end of "Modularity Shaming" due to its relatively large size for a JavaScript dependency, ~37K gzipped. The wellspring of "Modularity Shaming" is of course the very real need for JavaScript applicat...