Frameworks without the framework: why didn’t we think of this sooner?

Wait, this new framework has a runtime? Ugh. Thanks, I’ll pass. – front end developers in 2018 We’re shipping too much code to our users. Like a lot of front end developers, I’ve been in denial about that fact, thinking that it was fine to serve 100kb of JavaScript on page load – just use one less .jpg! – and that what really mattered was performance once your app was already interactive. But I wa