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Discussion on: HTML Rendering: An Important Lesson

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Dávid Szabó

If your site is simple enough, ditch bootstrap. Nowadays it's not a huge help anyway.

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Jamie

Definitely.

If I was more well supported (i.e in Microsoft based browsers), I'd use flex grid because I've had a lot of success using it on my .NET Core Podcast website

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Dávid Szabó

95% for flex box :) More than enough.
88% for grid which is not that bad.

You can do most of the layouts via flex. But yeah, I can't wait to use grid for everything :)

Also, when you ditch bootstrap you can ditch jQuery, double win :D

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Jamie

Also, when you ditch bootstrap you can ditch jQuery, double win :D

Exactly this. I'm not a huge fan of jQuery and it's massive, so ditching that will reduce page load times by sooo much.

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Jamie

As an update to this: I spent a few hours re-writing the web app to use flex box with a few other optimisation suggestions here in the comments, and the application now renders (without a cache) in around 400-500 ms.

Just need to shave a little overhead off by utilising a better font. Maybe I should use Variable Fonts or something similar.