Re:AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption
by breckenedge on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:25PM
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Have you ever worked for a place that cared about meeting CWV? Poor JS performance will definitely hurt rankings.
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Re:AI Is Stifling Tech Adoption
by SiliconSplash on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:44AM
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Yes. It was one contract only and I was the lead frontend dev.
I wrote a very lightweight JS framework (it was just a few classes really) so we could have plugins. A plugin implemented was just an object that implemented an interface, I also wrote a poor man's React for two or three pages that needed to build a lot of DOM Dynamically.
At launch the site was getting basically 100 on the lighthouse tests with the gzipped CSS and JS coming it at ~80KB. Of course that lasted for a week because people will put up a huge image that hasn't been optimised for the web.
The site was fast because I wrote it like a website from mid-2000s. Everything was basic OOP and almost all the code was procedural.