News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Engineering for Slow Internet. Parent comment

Re:Engineering for Slow Internet by NohatCoder on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:19AM (#40533630)
Having written a fair amount of SPA and similar I can confirm that it is actually possible to just write some JavaScript that does fairly complicated jobs without the whole thing ballooning into the MB space. I should say that I could write a fairly feature-rich chat-app in say 500 kB of JS, then minified and compressed it would be more like 50 kB on the wire.

How my "colleagues" manage to get to 20 MB is a bit of mystery.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Engineering for Slow Internet by RunSet on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:30AM (#40533715)
> How my "colleagues" manage to get to 20 MB is a bit of mystery.

More often than not (and wittingly or not) it is effectively by using javascript to build a browser-inside-the-browser, Russian doll style, for the purposes of tracking users' behavior and undermining privacy.

Modern "javascript frameworks" do this all by default with just a few clicks.

[ Parent | on HN ]