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JavaScript-first development is a subsidy harming the open web.
12 Sep 2020 » React is a subsidy Credit: React logo CC 4.0 by Facebook, edited by the author JavaScript-first development is a subsidy harming the open web. After a week of job interviews over video, while the sky was the color of Landry Violence , I decided to watch Stuart Langridge’s GOTO; 2020 talk (YouTube) on JavaScript . Thirty seconds in, Langridge relates Zack Leatherman’s example of 8.5MB of tweets in static HTML rendering 1/5 of a second faster than a React site rendering a single tweet (Hellsite) . Reader, I howled, despite that being a bad idea after a week of dangerous air quality
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