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Alex Russell
@infrequently.org

How broken is today's frontend culture? A friend points out that the median *mobile* page is now larger than a copy of DOOM (2.6 MiB vs. 2.48 MiB), the 75th percentile page is more than 2 DOOMs, and the P90 mobile page is 4.5x the size of DOOM: httparchive.org/reports/page...

httparchive.orgHTTP Archive: Page WeightThis report tracks the size and quantity of many popular web page resources. Sizes represent the number of bytes sent over the network, which may be compressed.
Avleen Vig
@avleen.com

This weekend I decided to write a "simple" web app: an RSS reader. What started off easy ended up needing: * A proxy server to bypass CORS * OAuth to Google * Config/pref storage and management * Caching, auto-refresh * Type-ahead completion is nice, so why not that too..

Avleen Vig
@avleen.com

* The ability to run somewhere, which in this case was Cloudflare Workers * A local dev environment * Abuse prevention * State syncing between devices * The ability to share * The ability to star/bookmark...

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Avleen Vig
@avleen.com

I'm not disagreeing with you but even simple web apps are super complex *by necessity* today. All of the things I mentioned above are basic features one might expect from a decent-but-still-not-too-complicated site. And all of this is before I worry about HA/resiliency in deployments.

Avleen Vig
@avleen.com

I would suggest that's the difference today. When I made my first website in the mid 90s it didn't have any capabilities because those didn't exist. Today they do, and they're core to modern apps. Your argument is akin to suggesting all modern cars should look and work like Fred Flintstone's?