I agree whole heartedly on the javascript plugin side. On most of my projects in the last years, javascript seems to be the thing that gets bloated the fastest

I agree whole heartedly on the javascript plugin side. On most of my projects in the last years, javascript seems to be the thing that gets bloated the fastest. When you need something you can always find a 3rd party jquery plugin that does what you need and it's great. Then you need something else, and something else and before you know it you've included 5-6 different jquery plugins, with their corresponding css files and other dependencies. And you tie the whole thing together with your own set of jquery code and you've got a big mess. I still haven't found the solution to this, since most of the jquery plugins I use are of greater quality than I can produce (most of the time) or take at least much more time than I personally have.