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Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement


How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.

If you are using a ‘commercial off the shelf’ (COTS) solution or asking an external supplier to build the service, you should consider including this in your requirements as part of your purchasing strategy. increase the overall size of your code base and push processing to the client-side, causing performance issues for users with a slower network connection or lower powered device bugs introduced in third party JavaScript intentionally running on the same page corporate firewalls blocking, removing or changing content (large institutions like banks or government departments may use these)

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