Jason Knight
2 min readOct 26, 2022

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*SIGH* such a bloated wreck of unneccessary steps, "JS for nothing", SPA for nothing telling large swaths of users to **** off, resulting in such a bloated unsustainable mess one really has to question if you even know enough HTML to be building websites.

Which of course the markup your "Javascript for nothing" is vomiting up proves in its 'logical heading orders and document structure? What's that?!?" mentality. Emphasis on the mental.

Hardly a shock then you get suckered by the middle finger to why CSS even exists that is bootcrap or failwind. Even less of a shock you end up spitting out 3.37 megabytes in 38 separate files to deliver a page that in all likelihood has ZERO business being more than 17k of flat markup, 48k of CSS in one file (for the entire site), and likely not even 16k of client side JavaScript if a competent developer had built it.

But tell me again how all this garbage made things simpler, "better for collaboration" or "easier to maintain" when you are literally deploying -- and likely wrote -- almost 200 times the code needed to do the job!

For something that's broken for non-standard font metric users since you slopped everything on the page in PX with PX breakpoints forcing users to dive for the zoom, excessive whitespace that only impresses the artsy-fartsy nitwits since your pages seem devoid of "content of value", etc. etm.

When people wonder about what I mean by developers who don't know enough of the underlying languages or basic concepts of sane and rational development getting suckered, hoodwinked, and bamboozled by these dipshit frameworks? THERE IT IS!

It is absolutely positively absurd that anyone would consider that to be competently built, much less write an article bragging about it. Poster child for those pesky 3i of "modern development". Ignorance, incompetence, and ineptitude.

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Jason Knight
Jason Knight

Written by Jason Knight

Accessibility and Efficiency Consultant, Web Developer, Musician, and just general pain in the arse

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