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"best practices" is just a phrase. There is no objective proof that what people call "best practices" is at all. Far more often, I've seen it used as a protectionism for not learning or trying new things.

Stuff like minification you probably want a pre-existing tool to do. It's stupidly simple and not that difficulty to integrate into any build process.

But stuff like transpiling is completely optional. ES5 is a really high level language. There isn't anything particularly "wrong" with it, not any more so than most any other language you'll end up using.




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