TLDR Web Dev · OPINIONS & ADVICE
FRONTEND COMPLEXITY AND THE HTML RENAISSANCE
Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter
Frontend development has become unnecessarily complex, with developers building elaborate JavaScript component libraries to recreate basic HTML functionality that browsers already provide or are increasingly supporting natively. Simple HTML elements like `details` and `summary` can create fully functional accordions without JavaScript, while popular component libraries require hundreds of files and dependencies to achieve similar results.