2025-11-27 22:00 UTC
@Michaelcarducci four frigging million lines?? yikes
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@Michaelcarducci@mastodon.social 2025-11-27 23:57
@sil scaffold a blank react app and run tokei on the node-modules dir. Fundamentally, HTML is not designed for highly interactive web apps. To quote Roy Fielding: “Rest is optimized for the common case of the web… large grain hypermedia transfer…” But fielding also gave us the optional code-on-demand constraint to dynamically extend the hypermedia. This is _not_ how SPA frameworks work, but it is exactly why a little library like htmx are so effective. https://sufficiently-advanced.technology/post/third-way-web-development-part-i