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Joost interprets this approach as deliberately avoiding frameworks that ‘simplify’ code by including predefined classes and functions that are shipped client-side, even if they’re not used. In principle you’d think these frameworks would be helpful, and they certainly can be, on the development side. The trouble is, unless they’re pared back with additional tooling (like PurgeCSS, for example), even well designed and developed sites can bloat significantly.
The open-source search tool Pagefind is a prime example of development under constraint, while also solving a distinct problem. In its case the constraint was network traffic — why ship a large search index file to every user, when indexes can be ‘chunked’ and served atomically, on demand?