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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate Mar 19
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    Alex Russell Retweeted Dave Guarino

    For the avoidance of doubt, let me be crystal clear: the only reason I don't *usually* say that so-called modern frontend is a Ponzi scheme is that it's mostly private firms burning funny money. If you're doing something that *really matters*, put the JS *down*. HTML or bust.https://twitter.com/allafarce/status/1240848110252732416 …

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    Dave Guarino @allafarce
    A reminder that most of government is forms and Rails is very good at forms. (Also I’ve already seen the catastrophic consequences to performance on lower-end devices from going full React. @slightlylate can attest.) https://twitter.com/paulsmith/status/1240701777017618432 …
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      1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate Mar 19
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        ("modern frontend" is a Ponzi scheme, pass it on)

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      2. matthew jones  🧻‏ @tahini Mar 19
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        Alex it’s somehow strangely reassuring that amidst all this panic and uncertainty you are steadfastly still posting about JavaScript bundle sizes.

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      3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate Mar 19
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        I been living with the real-world consequences of entitled SV...behaviour...for a long while now, and it's the moments when it all goes to pot that you can really tell which tech is sustainable. And experience teaches that React+whatever sets you up to fail in this moment.

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      1. Zach Holman‏Verified account @holman Mar 19
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        it turns out, html is still So Very Cool after all these years!

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      1. Ben Darlow‏ @kapowaz Mar 20
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        What about when it’s JS that renders HTML on a server and sends said rendered HTML over the wire?

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      2. Ash Connell‏ @AshConnell Mar 20
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        I find it much simpler and faster to use react than to deal with the bullshit involved with server side templating. As soon as you need something even remotely dynamic (you always will) your life just got infinitely worse, you basically dug your own grave.

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