1marc

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   by 1marc 4y ago

   This is how most of the FrontendMasters.com website is made. Go/Hugo templates and vanilla JavaScript. People are always shocked at how fast our website is. Write the code necessary for the job at hand.
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   by 1marc 4y ago

   With some patterns they can follow, vanilla js does indeed scale so well that it becomes boring. There’s no longer any code to rewrite for the latest and greatest frameworks. No dependencies to manage. It just becomes almost too easy at som
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   by 1marc 4y ago

   Agreed, esbuild is nice. And adding TypeScript at some type of scale probably makes sense. Not sure where that line is, but in this simple example I’m trying to avoid all external tools.
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   by 1marc 4y ago

   Thank you! Agreed!
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   by 1marc 4y ago

   People definitely notice speed and performance. They won’t complain about it generally, sure… but there’s plenty of data and case studies on the fact that users care https://nitropack.io/blog/post/web-performance-m
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   by 1marc 4y ago

   Ooo fastdom looks great! Thanks for the link.
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   by 1marc 4y ago

   I did this style to mimick modern framework code — taking the state (todos) and render the state of the world every time. If the browser had a DOM diffing api this would be more efficient and we would be there. So for a larger project I mig