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Questioning the JS frontend paradigm
An ever growing list of links questioning the JavaScript paradigm
So you want to make a new JS framework
I sometimes think about what it would take to start a successful JS framework project in the year 2023…
Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement
How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.
Choosing Your Stack | Engineering Guidebook
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Something went wrong – Ways out of the JavaScript crisis
Ways out of the JavaScript crisis
I’ve written tens of thousands of lines of code with Remix and I want to tell you why I love using this framework.
Why we switched to Astro (and why it might interest you)
Follow the first article of a series in which we’ll try to summarize our journey with Astro, sharing many cool little tricks and details we found out (or totally came up with) in the process.
Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
If you don’t often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.
Learning React is not worth my time, it’s probably not worth your time either.
A video from Webbed Briefs
If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today’s frontend discourse, and it’s bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.
Just Speculating: You May Not Need a SPA framework | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer
The Speculation Rules API aims to bring some promising improvements to page navigation speed.
React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Vanilla JavaScript, Libraries, And The Quest For Stateful DOM Rendering — Smashing Magazine
It’s well-established that the web faces wide-ranging usability and performance issues, from user-hostile UI patterns and twisted search results to sluggish performance and battery-draining bloat. In this article, Frederik examines one small-but-significant aspect where developers take the reins: Pa…
REACT FANS DON’T LOOK: A formerly-internal analysis around fitting a ≥44.5kB framework in a 20kB bag.
A Historical Reference of React Criticism—zachleat.com
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
The only thing React is better at than other front-end frameworks is being popular. So how long will that self-perpetuating cycle continue?
The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era
The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web world didn’t happen simply because some well-meaning developers found great DX. It happened because we were fed a line.
Intro to HTML-first Frontend Frameworks - SitePen
HTML-first front-end frameworks can help you develop modern interactive web applications while keeping page load times low and responsiveness high.
JavaScript-first development is a subsidy harming the open web.