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Re:Native Javascript alternatives to jQuery methods by jjeaff on Sunday March 31, 2019 @08:59PM (#19539556)
Plus, I don't think a lot of the engineers on HN are actually even working on first page optimizations. If you are building an application that people are logging in to and using on a regular basis, you can afford a little bit of first load overhead which will then most definitely stay cached for the remainder of the session.

All this talk of trying to skim off a few kb of load time only applies to extreme edge cases of landing pages with flighty potential customers.

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Re:Native Javascript alternatives to jQuery methods by acdha on Sunday March 31, 2019 @09:27PM (#19539680)
Yes, it’s an oddly specific focus given how few sites have been optimized to the degree that a single cache-friendly resource matters. Given how many sites I run into where a single failure means that functionality breaks entirely, I really think it should be down the list.
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