To be fair, not everyone is suggesting you need a scripted build system, but you do need some sort of build step, because &lt;script&gt; tags just aren&#x27;t sufficient for anything beyond a trivial app. (Also ultimately, you do need to minify your code for production).<p>This build step can just be &#x27;browserify main.js -o bundle.js&#x27;. This is where I suggest people start or go back to if they are intimidated by all the various options.