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Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them? (lea.verou.me)
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[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Most of the frameworks may have been needed at one time, but they were crutches. And requiring users to download them wastes time and bandwidth. Vanilla JS these days has largely replaced the need for them. We can fix them by eliminating the need for them.