Vento includes sent me down a caching rabbit hole of my own making

I spent hours chasing down an issue in my 11ty a.k.a. Eleventy a.k.a. BuildAwesome setup, specifically during local development, which I thought was a caching issue, without knowing where: any time I would update a JS file, I’d have to stop and restart my local development server. Not the end of the world, but not great either. I precompile my JS and CSS files from an /_assets folder into an…