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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

How bad is the JS community's web performance conversation? Let's just summarise last week:

• React bro discovers HTML can be pretty quick, fails to measure/understand large JS payload impact on "super fast" site
• React startup CEO bro "holds my beer"'s, builds rewrite on contemporary Reactor stack that *paints* faster, but spends just as much time camped out on the CPU...because React
• Reactors bleat loudly about how fast it is, looking only at *desktop* PSI scores.

Meanwhile...

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• Mobile PSI score in the "needs improvement" for a supposedly "highly performant [SIC] e-commerce template built on Next.js" (remote)