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 threadAlex RussellJul 8, 2023
An image map would be faster.
Show threadmokobienJul 8, 2023
@slightlyoff
Make article pages in InDesign and serve as big SVGs 🧠
Show threadNot a Spring Onion
@mokobien @slightlyoff
That would likely be way smaller.
Jul 9, 2023 at 9:08amWeb