Building a front end with no JavaScript
I feel like it’s possible to be way too puritanical about these things. Absolutely, JS bloat is an issue. But JS isn’t inherently bad, and removing it can make the user experience worse, not better.Take HN, for example. The [-] button to collapse a thread is really useful. But if it had to POST back to the server and reload the entire page just to hide a thread I wouldn’t use it anywhere near as much.