Alex RussellJul 8, 2023

It is *intense* just how badly the JS/React brainworms have infected the frontend community.

Every single NYT story page has *both* a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) *and* a 474KiB (1.7MiB) JS file, to display ~50K of text. It isn't ad bloat. It isn't tracking. It's this sort of bunk:

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@slightlyoff I remember when Washington Post posted a blog, cheerfully saying how they "fixed" mastodon verification by making it support HTML files over one megabyte.

They should have spent the effort debugging why their HTML was over one megabyte. But then they'd find its a fundamental flaw in react SSR. https://washpost.engineering/heres-how-the-washington-post-verified-its-journalists-on-mastodon-7b5dbc96985c

Here’s how The Washington Post verified its journalists on Mastodon

A small cross-disciplinary team of engineers worked together to add a feature so journalists at The Washington Post could link their Mastodon profiles from The Post’s website and verify themselves on…

Washington Post Engineering
Jul 8, 2023 at 6:18amWeb