> Installing with Vite
What the hell is Vite? Oh, it seems to be something you need to install via npm.
I cannot help but to ask - why do we require npm, or Vite, for something that looks like it should "help" with CSS?
Why is the webdev such a shitshow, that seems to get ever deeper into its own weird rabbit hole?
Surely we can agree that distributing shared libraries via a package manager is a good practice, no?
At one point, long ago, you could just download a file, reference it in your index.html, and use it without ever having to worry about updating this package. It had its flaws, but it also had many advantages compared to having an external dependency that might conflict with your version of Typescript, or being highjacked by bad actors.
I don't diss the concept of package managers at all, but there are lots of case where vendoring an external package is preferable than adding it as a dependency.