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Sometimes there is a better choice than Javascript (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

css can do animations, and it's much more performant then js. I hate how over-used JavaScript is on "modern" websites.
some websites are even straight up unusable or don't display anything with js disabled....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some websites, JavaScript is necessary for doing things without overloading a server. Mostly SPAs/PWAs and such. I’m using Voyager for Lemmy right now, which needs JS, but it gives me a great experience.

But yeah, JS is often overused. Luckily, with new technologies coming out like Astro and HTMX, we should hopefully start seeing less JavaScript on pages that don’t need it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Still wayting for a native solution to AJAX.

No, not Java beans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

htmx just generates js too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

However, it uses a lot less JS. It’s only a few lines of JS to replace an HTML element, but a lot more to parse a bunch of JSON and then alter the HTML to reflect that.