Ogma3, the software on which Genfic is ran, uses Gulp to process all the SASS styles, Javascript scripts, all the Typescript, everything. While I did experiment with various bundlers — and I mean various, everything from Webpack through Parcel to Snowpack — it was always Gulp that fit the workflow the most.

It’s not perfect, however, does have its issues, and the documentation is fairly outdated at times. Because of that, many people see that it takes 5 seconds to process their SCSS styles and bounces right out. In this post, I hope to solve at least two issues.

Yeah, using Vue or custom elements in the frontend is cool they can greatly improve compartmentalization of code through the use of components, but what happens when the JS code just… doesn’t load. Be it the user blocking it, the browser bugging out, or the CDN dying, those things happen.

If a form relies on the fields being components, what happens? Does the form just not render, does it break in any other way? Yes, it does, and submission becomes impossible.

But it doesn’t have to.