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The State Of JavaScript

Addy Osmani on October 27, 2018

I recently talked about the State Of JavaScript on the State Of The Web show. Yes, I'm a one-trick pony... 😃 On the client, as you pay for th...
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Nick Karnik

I hope we never forget how degrading the experience used to be in the 90’s. Most of us had no choice but to think about peformance. I guess server side generated pages probably made that much easier to manage.

I’m curious if you’ve thought about integrating Babel into the browser given that it might always be a few steps ahead? Would it make sense to let developers use some of the proposed features in the browser without the need for transpiling code (which might reduce the payload further)? Thanks!

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xorType

There should be a history lesson on the pre-jquery era. With ERPs in the 90s, we had no choice but to figure out how to lazy load 30mb of bloated xml to the browser.

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xorType

I would also say actually learn JavaScript and what the JS frameworks/libraries are doing under the hood.

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rhymes

Thanks for all the pointers!

ps. is that a firefox on your shirt? :D