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:

Show threadKit Rhett Aultman
@slightlyoff What really stings in all this isn't just the incredible waste and bloat but the way it pushes browsing into monoculture. I was just explaining to a junior dev on my team that, as late as 2006, I was still using lynx, a text-based browser, about 25% of the time, and he just boggled. It's now basically impossible to do that because everything renders through JS frameworks.
Jul 8, 2023 at 2:02pmWeb