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by madduci 62 days ago
Without fancy JS or CSS, sites can last decades easily
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With JS and CSS sites can last decades easily.
Agreed, it's not those, it's the fact that we went from JS being a little sprinkling of dynamism on a document to an entire build process with massive numbers of dependencies and browser shims. The web feels like a mistake as a platform...
I said "fancy", meaning frameworks or custom things. With vanilla js everything is durable