High-level comparison: https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=8103&idPhone2=8917 …
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This is paired with a lack of honest, detail-oriented coverage of the lived experience of most user's devices. It's abdication of journalism's one legit calling: holding the powerful to account.
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And if you're a web developer, the takeaway is suuuuuper simple: "modern", JS-heavy frontend doesn't work for most of your users; at least not without serious discipline and infrastructure. DIY front-end infra ISN'T WORKING.
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The only serious options I know of today are Preact CLI and Polymer PWA Starter Kit. Vue sadly leaves this as an exercise to the reader: https://router.vuejs.org/guide/advanced/lazy-loading.html#grouping-components-in-the-same-chunk … Honourable mention to Svelte for just being so darned small, delaying the onset of the problem.
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Let's be super specific about this: if your team or project stated with "just the framework" and a hand-me-down webpack config that you're bolting onto, you're probably failing. Not maybe, very probably with high confidence.
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You literally cannot afford today's "best-practice" popular frameworks unless you're making websites exclusively for Gucci or Porsche. They literally set you up to fail.
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