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 threadxrvsJul 8, 2023
@slightlyoff a 437KiB (1.5MiB unzipped) what? HTML?
Show threadAlex Russell
@xarvos JS file.
Jul 8, 2023 at 5:02pmWeb
Show threadxrvsJul 8, 2023
@slightlyoff so there are two JS files?
Show threadAlex RussellJul 8, 2023
@xarvos two that are nearly half a meg, but many more besides.
Show threadxrvsJul 8, 2023
@slightlyoff i see, thought you might missed a word there