> anyone who wants to build websites of even the simplest kind is expected to wheel in an incredibly large client-side and development stack not really, you ju

> anyone who wants to build websites of even the simplest kind is expected to wheel in an incredibly large client-side and development stack not really, you just seem to be overreacting to someone experimenting with a different way of doing it. I doubt most users would be able to tell the difference when browsing a traditional static site vs. the one in this article. I agree with you that there's a lot of overkill in our industry, but engineers can't be expected to sit on their hands and think up new ideas :)