[shortrounddev2]

index.html with script files would still benefit from a bundler. You can have a very minimal react footprint and still want to use react build tools just for bundling.

[komali2]

Sure, but I'm more confused about the next.js usage than I am about the bundler. The bundler makes sense.

[johncolanduoni]

What effect do you imagine Next.js has on a bunch of code manipulating an HTML canvas? For vanilla code directly using browser APIs it’s basically just a bundler configuration, and while it’s not optimally configured for that use case (and annoying for other reasons) it’s probably better than what someone who has never configured webpack before would get doing it themselves.