Shubham is a front-end developer based in Bangalore. He finds himself gliding comfortably in the design-engineering continuum. Recently, he’s been intrigued by the source of Javascript bloat in real-world applications and tackling performance using tools such as bundlephobia.
While effective bundling of resources on the web has received a great deal of mindshare in recent times, how we ship front-end resources to our users has remained pretty much the same. The average weight of JavaScript and style resources that a website ships with is rising — even though build tooling to optimize the website has never been better. With the marketshare of evergreen browsers rising fast and browsers launching support for new features in lockstep, is it time we rethink asset delivery for the modern web? Today, Shubham Kanodia will give you some answers.
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