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Really fantastic writeup by @moh-kohn.eurosky.social about the power of HTML-first sites (and @astro.build!) My humble opinion is that 90% of websites don't need Next.js, React, or other hefty client-side frameworks—they just need static pages and the occasional form

Next.js really is a conspiracy to sell more Vercel runtime i stg

I meannnn

once i saw a codebase where every other svg file was a `.tsx` file with `use client` at the top and I wanted to throw my laptop into the ocean

i mean in that case it was, like, static graphics so making them components really felt silly in the first place :p

The problem is that they end up in the client-side JavaScript bundle, in addition to already being in the HTML, right? Also, 1MB of JS is much more expensive to the browser than 1MB of images.

well it needs to be in the client-side bundle so that client-side code is able to render these at will for other screens, popups, and everything else that isn’t part of the initial paint

I have added a 'use client' on a static jsx file because I don't want the react flight data in the html. Removing double data in the html. I have had issues from my SEO partners complaining about JSON+LD being twice in the HTML script tag and RSC data.