Eleventy, Alpine and Tailwind: towards a lightweight Jamstack - Nicolas Goutay
Talk given by Nicolas Goutay at the online JAMstack Berlin Meetup #14 on July 27th, 2020.
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During the last two years, the median webpage size across the web increased by over 30%, from 1.5Mb to 2Mb—resulting in worse performance for end-users.
While the Jamstack philosophy is rooted in frugality, many recent Jamstack approaches rely on heavy JavaScript frameworks that give us top-notch Developer Experience at the expense of heavier web pages. What is the true cost of those frameworks? And how can we alleviate it?
In this talk, I will first describe the end-user impact of using JavaScript frameworks, then discuss options to reduce that impact for existing Jamstack websites, to finally present and review the “lightweight Jamstack” we used to redesign https://orbit.love: Eleventy, Alpine and Tailwind.
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