Some 2-3 months ago we started a Phoenix 1.4 project. The designer uses Pug https://pugjs.org/ for generating the basic html design, as well as the initial js/css. He uses some own pipeline for generating all this (using gulp), then I get the generated html, split it and use in Elixir templates (eex). This has proven to be a major setback and it’s taking big time on my side to integrate the changes. The generated files are too big, lots of html/svg ****, etc. On top of that, we take the generated js/css and integrate it with the webpack pipeline of Phoenix, with additional changes. We took a Vue.js dev onboard for some of the features that call the Phoenix backend/api. So as you might guess, it’s a big pile of fancy technologies, everyone coming from their background and not seeing the big picture of the project, and at the bottom line it looks like a big pile of ****. On the other side, business ppl have been pressing too much on releasing the product live, even though it’s not finished.
So, the question is: what would you have done differently in such situations? How would you integrate the work of some designer with some weird pipeline who delivers you bunch of html/js/css? How can one (if possible) get out of this pile of ****? I have lost the enthusiasm to work in this project, feel burnt out, and just want to finish and get out.