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by panstromek 239 days ago
This is great write up. I especially appreciate the focus on mobile, because I find it's often overlooked, even though it's dominant device to access the web. The reality of phones is brutal and delivering a good experience for most users in SPA-style archictecture is pretty hard.

"Slowness poisons everything."

Exactly. There's nothing more revealing than seeing your users struggle to use your system, waiting for the content to load, rage clicking while waiting for buttons to react, waiting for the animations to deliver 3 frames in 5 seconds.

Engineering for P75 or P90 device takes a lot of effort, way beyond what frameworks offer you by default. I hope we'll see some more focus on this from the framework side, because I often feel like I have to fight the framework to get decent results - even for something like Vue, which looks pretty great in this comparison.