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I hate Drupal as much as the next guy, but I have to defend one thing about it: it doesn't have to be slow, and it doesn't have to have jQuery. Just get rid of
by bgarbiak 4y ago
I hate Drupal as much as the next guy, but I have to defend one thing about it: it doesn't have to be slow, and it doesn't have to have jQuery. Just get rid of all of the bloatware that comes out of the box, and then don't solve every problem with a plugin/module. I know, a 3rd party module for every little thing is exactly how Drupal development looks in most companies. Sorta like jQuery a decade or so ago.
Anyway, with a bit of discipline and some frontend tricks (preconnect, preload, async) you can create a Drupal page that's super fast. And it would actually serve less code to the end user than a page based on JS frameworks (as all things happen on the server).
Example: https://www.magneticpoint.com/ https://www.magneticpoint.com/
- solardev 4y agoYeah but next gets you the same benefits without needing PHP or a DB (for the frontend). Drupal requires a LEMP stack, which is both hard to maintain and hard to scale/replicate. You still need a place to store actual content/data, of course. But that could be any store or service that gives you an API endpoint to fetch from.