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Patrick Charles-Lundaahl

All fantastic points! I think the last paragraph, in particular, is really poigniant, and contains at least a couple of sub-points:

  1. Whatever work you can do on the server, or ahead-of-time, do it. Not everyone can afford current-gen smartphones, and modern JavaScript frameworks basically demand decent specs. If you can forego that in favor of traditional server-side rendering, I really think you make things more accessible (also, probably worthwhile to ask your frontend devs to try using CSS for animations first, before resorting to JS).

  2. If at all possible, develop API-first. This paves the way for doing things like providing voice assistant interfaces to your website/app. I think most people probably do this already, but I also think it doesn't hurt to say it again!