IVS

Virtualbox is thing of the past, that solves problems of the past. Just use docker or WSL VirtualBox

Fow now on, we are happy with travis-ci & gitlab-ci. I have no interest in CircleCI as for today.

Just use browserify & commonJS modules. We don't use RequireJS. RequireJS client side loading resolution looks like the wrong answer to a bad problem. Use the proper tool at the right place instead !

RequireJS

We tend to stick to npm, yarn is only a fancy alternative, not 10x better. Using a self -hosted private repository (via sinopia/npm-mirror) make package locking (mostly) pointless.

Using ES7 async/await make the whole tooling chain "problem" disappear. No more code - no grunt tasks, no problems. We don't use grunt anymore. Grunt

gulp is a fancy alternative to grunt (that we don't use anymore). Just use async/await instead of "stream" everything (which is a nonsens). We don't use gulp. gulp

Typescript cost outweigh it's gain by far. We don't use typescript in our stack anymore. TypeScript

No need for this. We don't use Java (and legacy java code tend to be destroyed) Java