[eitland]

> It can be done but it's brutal and fragile.

Actually many who did jQuery were proud of it.

Some of us made rock solid sites or improved exiting ones quite a bit using a technology known as progressive enhancement.

Let me tell you what is fragile: the cool things I make today that won't even try to work if I disable Javascript. :-)

Edit: and given what we have seen over the last few days now would be a good time to reconsider if every website really needs to be able to run Javascript.

[djroomba]

I miss progressive enhancement, when/why did it die.

[bronson]

Did progressive enhancement ever catch on? It made for some great Rails 2 tutorials but I don't remember seeing it much in the wild.

It's going away because you basically have to write everything twice and it's hell to keep consistent.

[Can_Not]

If you need your website to work without JS, Nuxtjs is an amazing VueJS framework for SSR or static prerendering.