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by manlymuppet 190 days ago
I'm using source code like it's used when referring to source code vs executables. React doesn't simply spit out HTML, nor the JSX used to write said React code, it outputs a mixture of things that's the optimized HTML/CSS/JS version of the React you wrote. This is akin to source code and the optimized binaries we actually use.

Perhaps the wrong usage of "source code". I probably should've been more precise. Forgive my lack of vocabulary to describe the difference I was referring to.
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pastel8739 190 days ago
For a website from 1996 though, there’s a very good chance that the page source is the source code
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sailfast 190 days ago
There were no binaries or packages. You wrote the HTML in notepad or maybe you used some "high speed IDE" with syntax highlighting and some buttons like Dreamweaver and then uploaded it via FTP to whatever server you were hosting it on. No muss, no fuss. It was a glorious time and I miss that internet a lot.
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manlymuppet 190 days ago
Nor are there binaries now. I was simply making an analogy between traditional binaries/source code, and the way the web is built today (frameworks).
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