This is truly disturbing. Your work as a frontend engineer must center the user, not your preferences and comfort zone.https://twitter.com/MrChrisseuh/status/1236723266380869634 …
Absolutely! And good managers can make that choice explicit for/to the business. I observe most folks post-hoc rationalising lower reach, tho.
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It takes a lot of effort to have less code, though, and the rules about what's efficient change over time. For example, underpowered Android devices AND 5G totally flip the original desktop wins for SPAs. It's cruel that 300K of JS is more expensive than 3MB of HTML.
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I keep chuckling at "underpowered" re: Androids. They have 4+ cores! And a full GB+ of RAM! And GPUs!!! The reason 3MB of HTML is survivable on them is because the system is well optimised to yeild, do work in chunks, progressively render, and stay interactive...
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