Ask HN: Why the web lately is all about JavaScript?
47 points by Existenceblinks 3 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 72 comments
I read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31341083 recently and feel quite frustrated because now everyone is rendering html using javascript. I’m on twitter reading web stuff, when they talk about “SSR” (server-sided rendering), 99% of the time it means javascript based server. Why these trying-to-be-innovation lately aren’t not working with backend languages like python, ruby, elixir, go, rust etc?
I have an SPA app that is quite sophisticated whose WHOLE app size is ~110kB minified, and when I look at react-dom on https://bundlephobia.com/package/react-dom@18.1.0 it’s 130kB minified which sounds CREAZY to me compared to my whole app (no, it’s not a todo app, it’s an editor app)
Is it just me that interpret this situation as “suck”, or this is the future?
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