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Hi. Article writer here. Sourcemaps are pants and a nightmare to deal with. I make up for performance in other ways! Let me know if any part of my website(s) r
by humbugtheman 3y ago
Hi. Article writer here. Sourcemaps are pants and a nightmare to deal with.
I make up for performance in other ways! Let me know if any part of my website(s) run slow
- tgv 3y agoYour landing page doesn't even add html tags. Firefox says it's in quirks mode. That's not making up for performance.
- humbugtheman 3y agoDid it run slow for you? How many milliseconds? :)
- tgv 3y agoYou're just begging for the remark: then output an empty file. Super speedy.
- humbugtheman 3y agoHey I do actually experiment with this sliding scale :) Check out https://tadiweb.com https://tadiweb.com for more
- robinson7d 3y agoDo you have any strong example websites? The website you linked is very simple, I can’t see why most pages on it would benefit from using JS at all except for analytics or similar. It’s a good website, I don’t mean to make it sound otherwise, but it’s not the type that should consider minifying code in the first place. Minification’s more useful for web applications, along the lines of: MS Office (e.g. Excel), Zappier, UberEats, Photoshop, the reporting side of analytics (e.g. Google Analytics) where you get all the interactive graphs and maps. I think many of the disagreements on here would dissolve if they were only considering blogs and similarly small websites.
- robinson7d 3y agoSelf-reply: I see that the website links to tldraw under Job, which might be a good example to weigh the shipped size vs the same thing minified, except that it's already minified. As a tangent: this is a neat tool! :)
- humbugtheman 3y agoThanks! tldraw is of course minified/etc because it's part of a bigger ecosystem (eg: React, and more). The fact that stuff has to be minified is evil. Sometimes it's a good idea to minify. It's still evil