Build Less. Ship More.
Your code is complex. Your dependencies are out of control. It's time to stop.
The Truth About Your Stack
Hydration is a Tax
Your "interactive" button sends 847KB of JavaScript to the browser. The user clicks. The browser executes. The CPU spikes. The battery dies.
Alternatively: <button>Click me</button>
Bundlers Are Debt
ES modules have been supported in browsers since... forever. Yet you bundle everything. Why? So you can use import { foo } from 'bar' instead of <script type="module">.
Frameworks Are Fads
React introduced hooks. Vue copied them. Svelte rejected them. Angular ignored them. Now everyone uses hooks. Next year, everyone will use something else.
HTML doesn't change. Forms worked in 1995. They work today. They will work in 2050.
The Developer Manifesto
You didn't become a developer to configure Webpack. You became a developer to build things.
CSS Grid, Flexbox, View Transitions. The browser already solved your problems.
It's 40KB of gzipped text. It loads instantly. It works everywhere.
Every layer of abstraction hides a bug. Every dependency is a liability.
The best code is the code you don't write. The best feature is the feature you don't ship.
Complex systems fail. Simple systems survive. Choose boring.