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 threadTinyrabbit ✅Jul 8, 2023
@slightlyoff ”but the browser can cache the files so it doesn’t fetch them every time.” — the argument I get from frontend devs when pointing out this imbalance
Show threadUrsidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs
@tinyrabbit @slightlyoff it can do that anyway!
Jul 8, 2023 at 2:05pmWeb