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Thanks for the feedback!

I struggled with the ordering since each section is somewhat mutually dependent; this is arranged more like a thematic history than a chronological one.

Tree-shaking naturally fits under bundling, and I'm afraid that explaining it earlier will make tree-shaking's explanation itself contextless since without bundling there is nothing to tree shake.

I can hyperlink those references to the tree-shaking section tomorrow so that there is an action for the confused.

[snthpy]

Thanks. I did see that it was covered later as I continued reading the article and looking back I see that it's in the TOC as well so maybe I just didn't pay enough attention. I think just hyperlinking to that section would do the trick (and maybe on the first occurrence a small comment like (covered below) but that might not be necessary.

Thanks for the response and more importantly the article! It covered exactly all the points that were opaque to me about frontend build processes. I've also forwarded it to a couple of other backend devs that I know.

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What helps me in writing on complex things is introducing a concept with a simple (perhaps even slightly wrong) explanation when you need it, before explaining it in greater detail and clearing up any prior simplifications when the reader is able to grok it fully.

Not to take away from the excellent writing in your original essay!