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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by kstrauser on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @02:41PM (#19038570)
I agree. I don't do frontend stuff, but I sit next to the team that does. They take a lot of pride in making fast-loading pages that render quickly and respond instantly. That's not compatible with writing giant, bloated, inefficient code.
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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by vezycash on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @02:46PM (#19038628)
>They take a lot of pride in making fast-loading pages that render quickly and respond instantly.

Maybe in your company. My experience browsing modern front-end SPA design however begs to differ. They pride themselves in loading megabytes of uncompressed images, layers of invisible background images, frameworks to load frameworks, auto-download/auto-playing 4k videos...

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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by seattle_spring on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:18PM (#19038990)
No one prides themselves on any of those things.
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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by chris_wot on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:50PM (#19039319)
And yet they still do it.
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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by choochootrain on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:14PM (#19039575)
i agree with you but you have to keep in mind that pages which load fast on a fiber connection and render and respond quickly on the latest macbook don't guarantee the same for the average user.

giving devs 4 year old laptops would help but when shiny startup is offering new macbooks how can you compete?

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Re:Add limits to amount of JavaScript that can be loaded by ... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @04:44PM (#19039876)
Giving devs 4yo laptops when they only need then for testing seems, erm, strange, limiting.

Just have them test under processing and bandwidth limits?

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