April 11, 2024
Warning! The below blog post is mostly an incoherent rant about JavaScript and the modern web once again. I would not recommend reading any further if you are not 100% prepared to try to understand my viewpoint from a point of an angry, angry person who has slow internet.
Anyways, all of the websites that I make are usually simple to the point, have no clutter, usually not even JavaScript, and load quite fast if not being slowed down by my slow web servers, which I host on because they are cheap.
And recently I've started to notice that more and more people have started to go back into single-page websites and more simple designs on them. And even people who I know who love to clutter their sites with JavaScript have started to remove some of that JavaScript from them - I'll come back to this later.
Of course, JavaScript is not the only reason why websites load so slow nowadays, but it's one of the biggest issues that the modern web has - JavaScript bloat; on websites that don't require it, or don't need such huge libraries to do something as simple as, for example, make a pop-up box or animations on the page - you can do that all with CSS.
Now, why do people remove JavaScript and huge libraries from their pages? A recent wake-up call for at least one person was the XZ case. They started to realize that they are pulling code from unverified, un-vetted & unknown sources (because the whole JS ecosystem is a clusterfuck, I guess?) and decided to slowly start to transition to only using "known good libraries" and removed most of the JS from their page - as it was all for simple tasks like blurring (like WTF?).
Now so far it has only been one person that I know that has done this, but this gives me hope that maybe in the future, I can go to other websites that have de-bloated themselves and feel the speed increase! Also, they would also save money because they are not sending huge chunks of JavaScript with their page - wink wink.
I don't really have a point or an end to this blog post. I just wanted to rant about my internet being slow; and most websites using way too much JavaScript to do any - even the most simplest of tasks on them. I hate it. I hate the modern web and especially people who keep insisting on using JavaScript for the most stuff. I mean, not even JavaScript solely, but thousands of JS libraries! It has to stop, now :3