March 28, 2023 at 7:38:33 PM UTC

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Looks like https://www.zachleat.com/web/single-page-applications/ popped off on the orange site, currently holding 113 well reasoned comments—featuring gems like:

💎 “React 16 is about 5 KB uncompressed”
💎 “228 kB of JavaScript? That's a moderately sized image”
💎 “His way to make a website available to any browser is to use an API that nothing but the latest Chrome supports?”
💎 “is SEO important in 2023? how much traffic is coming from Google that converts to paying customers or clients?”

11 replies

Jason Garber 4 min later

@zachleat
💎 “I’m desperately envious of his beard.”
passle 15 min later

@zachleat Lol at the react is only 5KB. Wait until they figure out the size of react-dom
Max Böck 15 min later

@zachleat API? Are they talking about view transitions? But that doesn't make any sen... Oh right hackernews, my bad.
1. Zach Leatherman 21 min later
  
  @mxbck The important context here is that SPA <=> website 🫠
  1. Max Böck 27 min later
    
    @zachleat yea right. I guess "Google's propaganda runs deep"
Phil Hawksworth 28 min later

@zachleat DEEEEEEP sigh.
1. Zach Leatherman 30 min later
  
  @philhawksworth to be fair not all of the comments were bad!
  1. Phil Hawksworth 37 min later
    
    @zachleat Thank goodness. It’s too late in my day to have the energy to look, because I anticipate a lot of threads to pull at. But I love your post and am thankful for what you do with your voice.
    1. Zach Leatherman 43 min later
      
      @philhawksworth Thankful to be seasoned enough to differentiate between productive feedback and noise!
      Your support means a lot Phil ❤️
Alex Russell 1 hr later

@zachleat the parallels between JS-community '23 and Flash community circa '07 are *intense*
1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later
  
  @slightlyoff you may enjoy this 2023 post from @davatron5000 (I know I did) https://daverupert.com/2023/02/the-case-for-flex-applications/