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by xyst 786 days ago
I like the idea of it. Promotes accessibility in cases where bandwidth is limited. Or users have older devices or limited computing power.

I wonder if sites using angular or react will even work without js

edit: while looking this up myself, discovered a design philosophy called: Progressive Enhancement (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement)

If I ever start up my own company. This will be the foundational principle for front end development

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Part of this initiative is, I’m sure, to enlighten newer members of the web community to the fact that you can build a large percentage of web pages without JavaScript being required, and that is in fact how we always did it in the past.

Whether or not doing so makes business sense is a different discussion. While I philosophically agree I’m also aware a lot of people have jobs that require being part of the economy of JavaScript garbage at a global scale.