Tim Kadlec avatar Tim Kadlec

The Cost of Javascript Frameworks

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In an ideal world, I believe a framework should go beyond developer experience value and provide concrete value for the people using our sites. Performance is just one part of that—accessibility and security both come to mind as well—but it’s an essential part.

So in an ideal world, a framework makes it easier to perform well by either providing a better starting point or providing constraints and characteristics that make it hard to build something that doesn’t perform well.

The best of frameworks would do both: provide a better starting point and help to restrict how out of hands things can get.