When I was finishing university I bought into the framework-based web-development hype. I thought that "enterprise" web-development has to be done this way. So I got some experience by migrating my homepage to a static VUE.JS version. Binding view and state by passing the variables name as a sting felt off, extending the build env seemed unnecessary complex and everything was slow and has to be done a certain way. But since everyone is using this, this must be right I thought.

I got over this view and just finished the new version of my page. Raw HTML with some static-site-generator templating. The HTML size went down 90%, the JS usage went down 97% and build time is now 2s instead of 20s. The user experience is better and i get 30% more hits since the new version.

The web could be so nice of we used less of it.