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Curtis McHale

I Hate Client Side JS Crap

This article cites React and how bad it is, but really I dislike all client side JS stuff that renders the DOM with JavaScript.

Angular…ugh digging out of an old app that no longer builds and was always slow. As I’ve replaced it with PHP and standard HTML we’ve seen reliability go up and speed increase.

How about we head back to a state where we publish pages in HTML to web users. Then we use some JavaScript to make the interactions a bit nicer for users but if there is no JavaScript…everything works anyway.

That’s still the web I’m building and the web I miss all the time.

1 response to “I Hate Client Side JS Crap”

  1. Reuben Asks – Is WordCamp Relevant to the PHP Development Community? – SFNdesign

    […] As I wrote a few days ago, we should send HTML to users then use some JavaScript to make the interactions a bit nicer. Your whole site should work without JavaScript involved in any fashion. […]

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