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Re:JavaScript growth and third parties by ricardobeat on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:13AM (#18680002)
It is entirely possible to build rich web apps with very small size. As shown in the article, the main source of bloat are 3rd party scripts: ads, tracking, metrics, retargeting, security...
Re:JavaScript growth and third parties by oraphalous on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:23AM (#18680066)
Everyone here is the choir...

Now convince the client that they don't need to track every single possible click of the user - as they experience their "journey" through the site...

...convince the client that all those experience designers effusing about that "emotional layer" they added to that user journey didn't really result in 30% more engagement with the brand - as evidenced by exactly that same user tracking - convince em XD isn't just mouthing a load of horse shit. I mean - why do all the folks in XD dress in black all the time anyway. Would someone run a focus group on that please?

Funny thing is - I don't even know if they are all full of shit or not. Maybe all this is all necessary - maybe not. I don't even know and I build this stuff for a living. Client seems happy so meh...

But yeah - these large JS bundles aint the cause of these large JS bundles... ahem - I mean these slow sites...

Re:JavaScript growth and third parties by ASalazarMX on Friday December 14, 2018 @03:47PM (#18684565)
There are these obscure files called "logs" which record every interaction with your server. They might be useful, IDK.
Re:JavaScript growth and third parties by cmoscoso on Friday December 14, 2018 @06:40AM (#18680145)
I keep JS disabled so most of this crap don't bother me.