Are We Building the Web the Right Way?
summary
A critical look at current web development practices: rising page weight, broken browser back-button behavior, and when common tools are justified. The talk examines technologies and practices like Bootstrap, CSS-in-JS, preprocessing/minification, and JavaScript frameworks, evaluating objectively when they help and when simpler approaches (plain CSS/JS files) are preferable.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:11Web dev specialization
- 3:38Frontend value
- 7:16Criticism of frameworks
- 10:54HTML accessibility
- 12:43Link and button mistakes
- 15:18Async requests without URLs
- 17:25JS frameworks necessity
- 21:51CSS pros and cons
- 25:20Multiplatform modern browsers
- 28:54Polyfills and optimization
- 31:01Keep it simple
- 34:34Works vs done right
- 36:43Q&A
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