Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
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Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
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Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
#2Good. I could do without the JS, to be honest (I'm a little tired of pages that refuse to show me anything unless I whitelist some stupid third-party jQuery script in uMatrix), but, baby steps.
When sites finally ditched their trendy Flash rewrites and went back to HTML, I thought, thank God.
Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
#3It’s a nice title but webapps have evolved from documents to application bundles.
It’s super cool that we built wildly complicated apps out of what was in spirit an FTP client with a PDF reader but it makes since that we have to hack the document retrieval system less now that the client can run code.
Maybe one day we’ll stop hacking on the document store’s limited RPC-ish protocol too.
Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
#4Good. I could do without the JS, to be honest (I'm a little tired of pages that refuse to show me anything unless I whitelist some stupid third-party jQuery script in uMatrix), but, baby steps. When sites finally ditched their trendy Flash rewrites and went back to HTML, I thought, thank God .
The JAM stack the author is talking about is entirely driven by JS. The is “static” in the sense that a .dmg file is static and can be hosted on a CDN and not templated on the server.
Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
#5Good. I could do without the JS, to be honest (I'm a little tired of pages that refuse to show me anything unless I whitelist some stupid third-party jQuery script in uMatrix), but, baby steps. When sites finally ditched their trendy Flash rewrites and went back to HTML, I thought, thank God .
"i could do without the js" is an indictment of design decisions, not js. its performant as hell, and ubiquitous. its a great thing, ...what people chose to do with it is often not great, however.
Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
#6Would have been apt to use 'devolved'. 'Are We Not Men?'
Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
#7Good. I could do without the JS, to be honest (I'm a little tired of pages that refuse to show me anything unless I whitelist some stupid third-party jQuery script in uMatrix), but, baby steps. When sites finally ditched their trendy Flash rewrites and went back to HTML, I thought, thank God .
The JAM stack the author is talking about is entirely driven by JS. The is “static” in the sense that a .dmg file is static and can be hosted on a CDN and not templated on the server.
Jesus, why? You could write the back end in something that isn’t fucking garbage, at that point.
Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
#8Wouldn't do it any other way.
I dipped out of web dev in 2015 to run an ecommerce project. I stopped tracking all the latest js framework news. I settled on a barebones CSS rule set. I stopped choosing SPAs as the starting point for mvp ideas. I shelved Wordpress and moved some content sites over to Netlify and just recently started using a nifty desktop ssr cms instead of Hugo, Gatsby, etc.
I was regressing to the environment I understood in the early 2000s-2010s. I did all of this because I knew there would be a steep learning curve going into modern ecommerce and it seemed reasonable to put everything into hibernation while I attempted to go all-in.
I pretty much missed the entire React, Angular, Vue ramp up in the industry.
I've since shut down that ecommerce project and find myself peeking back to the js-verse every now and then.
I doubt I'll ever voluntarily use one of those frameworks for web dev.
I do, however, like this thing called, Svelte.
Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
#9It seems the trend points to slower and slower websites with more JS bloat. I also notice a increase in JS-errors causing entire sites to malfunction, recently this happened to large apps like Teams and Float
Re: Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The JAM stack the author is talking about is entirely driven by JS. The is “static” in the sense that a .dmg file is static and can be hosted on a CDN and not templated on the server.
Jesus, why? You could write the back end in something that isn’t fucking garbage, at that point.
shovel sellers, that's why