Can You Afford It? Real-World Web Performance Budgets
Do we need all this JS? I’m starting to look back at classic web development where you had a server rendered mvc style app. There was a controller and templates populated on the server. Every page was a full rerender, but it was small html. Proper caching kept the minimal CSS and images on the client for a regular session under 30 minutes. This seems better.<p>I know we switched because front end experts told us that users found the full refreshes annoying. They said that users really wanted native desktop like seamless change pages. Never did I see proof of these claimed. Is the modern JS based design our cubicle moment? Did we get suckered in by experts making productivity claims with nothing to back them up?