In the thread today about the size of Doom compared to a modern webpage [1], it was mentioned a number of times that including jQuery, Bootstrap, etc. even for the smallest of websites one of the reasons why downloading and rendering modern webpages is so slow.<p>I could not find an acceptable solution. It was mentioned that pointing to a CDN increases the chances that the resource is cached, but that is not always the case.<p>What is the alternative? Using smaller libraries? Not using libraries? Are Zepto and Skeleton good enough for small websites? What are other libraries&#x2F;frameworks of similar size that you have used and liked? Are we at a point where using vanilla JS and CSS is good enough?<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11548816
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