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>I know this was a joke I'm…missing the joke – could someone explain, please? Thank you.

• SomeHacker44 1y ago
  Not a front end engineer but I imagine this boilerplate allows the JavaScript display engine of choice to be loaded and then rendered into that DIV rather than having any content on the page itself.
• bitbasher 1y ago
  It's because "modern" web developers are not writing web pages in standard html, css or js. Instead, they use javascript to render the entire thing inside a root element. This is now "standard" but breaks any browser that doesn't (or can't) support javascript. It's also a nightmare for SEO, accessibility and many other things (like your memory, cpu and battery usage). But hey, it's "modern"!
  • mb2100 1y ago
    This. But hey, let's work on swinging the pendulum of technology back while keeping the DX. I'm doing that with https://mastrojs.github.io/ https://mastrojs.github.io/