Why I don't care if you disable JavaScript

Jan Küster - Aug 11 '21 - - Dev Community

This is highly subjective and argumentative. If you think different, please comment!

I love to develop highly interactive and complex apps - that run in the browser. I also think the browser is still the most important tool for accessing them. At least for now. And the next few years. Even on mobile.

If there would be no JavaScript, none of my apps would work. I think this is okay. I haven't lost anyone yet, just because it's a hard requirement to run the apps. I also don't see a valid use-case to disable JavaScript in the browser.

I am also a single person and I don't have the money to pay you any computation effort to render a page (SSR). Your browser can do that and it costs you nothing, compared to me. So I push this task to you in such small pieces that it feels all lightning fast (dynamic imports). Lighthouse is my witness. It also wouldn't work this way if JavaScript is disabled.

Search engines can't find my app's deeper content. That's okay, it's only for members anyway. They still find my index.html and that's fine enough for indexing.

I don't see any reason to work towards removing JavaScript from my apps soon.

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