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Just Use HTML

I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way. I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and enhancing what’s already there, and adding interactivity that cannot (yet) but handled with HTML.

September 10, 2025 I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. Let’s say you have a<table> that gets generated based on some data that’s specific to the user or some selections that have been made in a<form>. A lot of work shifts to the backend that in today’s apps is handled with client-side code.

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