Breaking down the McMaster Carr website and the techniques they use to make it so dang fast.00:00 - Intro00:38 - Server Rendered HTML00:54 - Prefetching HTML...
  • Jesus_666@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Aw, c’mon! Who doesn’t enjoy piping ten megabytes of JavaScript through Webpack to achieve those crucial on-scroll effects on an otherwise static page?

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      Hey let’s not lie to ourselves… most of those megabytes of JS are there to disable the copy functionality for anyone browsing our site.

      Why? … reasons. Someone in marketing said a thing once.