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by alessioalex 2489 days ago
> Mobile devices simply don't have the CPU and memory to cope well with client-side JS apps.

I think they do, but most client-side JS apps are horribly designed. They load the whole bundle at once, display ads, have setTimeouts and other unnecessary things that add to the bloat.

Native apps aren't great either, I hate the Twitter and Reddit ones, they constantly fail to load stuff, block and restart.

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> They load the whole bundle at once [...]

Isn't this a good thing? Genuinely asking.

It depends. If I'm never planning on visiting the "live dashboard" of some website then all the extra code that is loaded for that feature is useless to me. That's why separate bundles exists (with browserify, webpack etc).