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@zens@merveilles.town @aynish
Yeah this is all too real, the "solution to problem caused by previous solution" pattern of tech. Its nice to get off the treadmill. For example if I make a small web app w/ preact and parcel, it will be like 7kb to 14kb unminified/uncompressed... But as soon as I wanna display a legible stacktrace to the user when an error occurs, I have install the 'sourcemapped-stacktrace' package and oops.. bundle.js is ~100kb now.
Theoretically possible to make it load that part after the page we care about loads, but now we're loading error handler separately and **after** everything else loads, and we need fallbacks, and, and, and, it never ends.
Idk if there is any ideal solution to this. Web dev is just hard.
@zens@merveilles.town @aynish I should clarify, I mean specifically for highly interactive / dynamic web apps like a mastodon client, something that behave more like a desktop/mobile app. For everything else I agree the "fit it in one file less than 12kb" approach is