If your site has more than 500k of JS (uncompressed), you don't get to look down on "jQuery developers".
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I mean, Alex has seen some insane shit, but I wish he'd more precisely cut to the root problem: cargo cult devs.
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Replying to @AdamRackis @ken_wheeler and
The people who copy paste shit from blogs npm install a b c d e --save -> 500K of JS just for some simple form. *That's* the problem.
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That's a problem that's enabled by a lack of backstops: no tools warning you, no klaxons going off.
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But plenty of apps need those things. You've just run into trivial apps that dump that crap in for no reason - cargo culters.
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Replying to @AdamRackis @slightlylate and
No, let's be clear. It's really difficult for beginners to get started. We should focus on *why* people are copy/pasting from blogs...
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Replying to @amarkon88 @AdamRackis and
...rather than telling them to trim bundles. Usually it's because it's hard to solve problems given the current platform
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Replying to @amarkon88 @slightlylate and
Sure, but since when has software development been "easy?" There've always been those who try to learn and do their best, & the copy-pasters
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Replying to @AdamRackis @slightlylate and
Sure, but historically copy/paste has been the cause of bad code that no one on the team understands. Copy/pasting deps is a new phenomenon
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Can we stop blaming people who are just trying to do a job and focus on how to define "doing a good job" more effectively? Thanks.
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