JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
Summary
A long-form critique of JS-heavy web development, arguing that client-side heavy architectures, especially those based on React, are not conducive to long-term performance. It advocates server-centric or progressively-enhanced approaches, highlights debugging and maintenance challenges, and provides mitigations (code-splitting, bundle tracking, perf budgets, RUM) with a call to rethink frontend architecture for better user experience.