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In a typical Laminas MVC application, HTML pages are rendered using views.

It is also typical to enhance the rendered html using Javascript. A typical case would be to use packages like Bootstrap and Jquery.

In a typical Laminas View template, you would include the following to add script loading tags to your head section.

<?php
$this->headscript()->appendFile("https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js");
$this->headscript()->appendFile("https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js");
$this->headscript()->appendFile("https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js");

When your application starts to have multiple pages and when you want to have different JS scripts for each page, it came become difficult to keep track of which JS packages need to be loaded for a given page.

What scripts should be rendered by the layout template?
What scripts should be rendered by a page view template?
Where do you render you own scripts for a give page?

If you are using a frontend framework like Angular or React, you know that the number of individual JS files can increase tremendously. Most probably, you are also using Webpack and transpiler like Babel to compile and manage dependencies.

I have use (and am still using) RequireJS in the past to manage the dependencies between scripts and packages when my scripts were somewhat simple. Now that I am moving to React JSX, I found that the number of scripts is increasing. In order to automate everyting, I also started using Webpack.