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HOW I MADE MY ONLINE GAME WORK WITHOUT JAVASCRIPT AND WHY YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This dev built an online board game website with fully optional JavaScript. They used server-side rendering with SvelteKit, standard HTML elements like `summary` and `details` for interactive components, and URL parameters for managing UI state. To mimic real-time updates without WebSockets, they used the auto-refresh meta-tag.