The Shift to Modern Tooling

Traditional build tools often become a bottleneck for developer productivity. As our project, git-profile, grew in complexity, the need for a faster, more reliable development environment became clear. Moving away from legacy bundlers was the first step in streamlining our workflow.

The Challenge

• Slow cold start times during local development

Developing a frontend application, specifically for the justifai project, presented an unexpected hurdle: a blank white page immediately after loading. The root cause? A ReferenceError: global is not defined error, stemming from the amazon-cognito-identity-js module.

The Problem

The amazon-cognito-identity-js library, often used with AWS Amplify for authentication, was originally