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Discussion on: Why our websites are slow — Importance of bundle size

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shrey vijayvargiya

Yes, the packages have evolved a lot, webpack mostly handle all the required things such as code-splitting, removing dead-code, lazy loading and so on.

Well, my initial premise have no intention to blame frameworks and langugaes behind the lagging of websites. In fact, I've mentioned them to give combat the blames react often get nowadays about being a bit slow on browser.

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Simon MacDonald

When I said:

Over the past 5 years, while we were all busy working with JS frameworks, the platform got really, really good.

I meant the web browser itself has vastly improved. To me, the best way to keep your bundle size small is not to immediately reach for a framework but instead start with HTML and CSS, only adding in JS when you absolutely need to. If you want an example, I wrote a post that starts as a React app for collecting data via a from and we strip away what isn't needed until we are left with HTML and CSS only.

blog.begin.com/posts/2022-02-09-do...