“Authoring the functionality yourself also offers the huge benefit of laser focused implementation. Specifically you're not consuming resources to support all the use cases - you're only supporting your use case.”
Great read by @rem.
https://remysharp.com/2019/02/01/should-i-add-another-dependency
I’d find React so much more appealing in general if so many of its cheerleaders weren’t such petulant men children.
Oh, there’s the Facebook thing, too…
You might be wondering what powers https://npm-uninstall-facebook.com/.
It is, of course, @eleven_ty, which is by far my favourite static site generator. It’s also marked as an alternative to Gatsby on the site 🎉
This is a fantastic project by @tkadlec. Money really does speak loudly in the context of performance, so this tool will be really handy.
It’ll be especially handy to calculate the actual cost of certain developer experience “enhancements” that result in very heavy payloads.
Let’s hope so, anyway...
“Seeing how something real is built puts the individual pieces of the puzzle together in a way that sample code or abstract lessons just don’t.”
Fabulous article by @DHH.
https://m.signalvnoise.com/paying-tribute-to-the-web-with-view-source/