Alex RussellDec 19, 2022

2022 is turning into a big year for Team Finding Out, and there's still a couple of weeks left, so join me in deciding that frontend's lost decade can also come to a close.

We can decide that the JS thinkfluencers actually *didn't* know what they were talking about and go HTML-first. And it can be better.

h/t, @noam:

https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2022/an-html-first-mental-model/

An HTML-first Mental Model

... while building a fast movies app Overview The Movies App The TasteJS movies app is a showcase for different frameworks. I was excited about it because it gave me an opportunity to test some hypothesis, and see if it holds in the context of an app that's a bit less trivial than TodoMVC.

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Show threadJules 🍺Dec 19, 2022
@slightlyoff @noam
I'm a Web developer who does stuff by building html templates and serving them to the browser.
I've noticed that this tends to be as fast as single page sites and generally less fragile.
There is a temptation to go down the js pile route, it's very well paid, but I can't bring myself to do it, every time I run into a site built that way weather as a user or as a developer I feel a strong urge to scream as the difficulties pile up. Especially on a mobil
Show threadNoam Rosenthal
@julesbl @slightlyoff Yea I come from the same place... I was a web developer a decade before I was a browser developer and the everything-in-JS thing always felt like the wrong way to look at web dev.
Dec 20, 2022 at 5:19amWeb