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If you can afford static (100% server-rendered) HTML, the world is your oyster! Party like it's 1998, but with incomparably better tools.

But a large enough proportion of modern web sites need enough interactivity to make even jQuery or even HTMX slightly inadequate.



Agreed, but I contend that this is a small share of the sites that use a frontend JS framework (which is to say that these frameworks are often used unnecessarily) and even those which genuinely need some serious JS could likely scale it back considerably to significant benefit. I say this as someone who usually argues in favor of the new and shiny.


I would argue this proportion is a lot smaller than the number of websites that think they do.




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