It even still looks the same! Man I miss those days. Bring back RequireJS and/or browserify

You can still use those tools, but good luck. There's a reason most of us have stopped using them

I mean fwiw, native web esmodules now work basiaclly the same as require did back in the day so you can get the same vibe with no build step

Requirejs does not have a mandatory build step.

correct, that was part of my point

Neither do esmodules

Yeah I love it, I wish it was adopted more widely but alas, Webpack and Parcel run my world today