Ship less JavaScript, closer to the user (JS Party #199)

KBall catches up with Chris Ferdinandi about the trends in modern web development towards smaller libraries, pre-compilation, and applications at the edge.

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• Chris Ferdinandi – Website, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Help us make episode #200 awesome!
• JSParty 80: JavaScript is the CO2 of the web
• Preact
• petite-vue
• SolidJS
• Svelte
• Hugo
• Eleventy
• Rich Harris on transitional apps
• JSParty 55: The future of the web is npm, but maybe not JavaScript
• Astro
• Jason Lengstorff on Astro and Next
• Native Interactive Components
• HTML Sanitizer API
• Details and summary elements
• JSParty 183: JS on Wasm

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