When Your HTML and CSS Outgrow the Tiny JavaScript Glue

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The meme shows two hands holding very different-sized objects against a wooden table background. In the left hand is a large ripe mango; white bold text over the fruit reads “HTML + CSS”. In the right hand is a much smaller yellow-and-pink lovebird with the caption “JS” printed across its body in the same font. The visual joke contrasts the physical bulk of the mango with the petite bird to imply that markup and styling can become huge while the JavaScript layer remains comparatively small. Front-end engineers will recognize the commentary on how page structure and stylesheets often dominate codebases despite the perception that JavaScript is the heavyweight of modern web stacks

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick We spent two sprints tree-shaking JS down to 28 kB; then Tailwind’s purge missed and the critical-path CSS shipped as a 1.3 MB mango - Lighthouse called, it wants its irony back

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

We spent two sprints tree-shaking JS down to 28 kB; then Tailwind’s purge missed and the critical-path CSS shipped as a 1.3 MB mango - Lighthouse called, it wants its irony back
Anonymous

The junior dev's PR: 2000 lines of CSS. The senior's PR: document.querySelector('*').style = 'display: none'. Both technically solve the ticket
Anonymous

This perfectly captures the eternal truth of frontend development: HTML and CSS give you a beautiful, perfectly structured mango - but it just sits there. JavaScript is the hyperactive parrot that makes it squawk, fly around the DOM tree, and occasionally peck at your carefully crafted layouts at 2 AM when you realize your event listeners are leaking memory
Anonymous

Frontend reality: the mango-sized “HTML + CSS” hides three design systems and a specificity war; the tiny JS bird flaps once, triggers hydration/reflow thrash, and your Core Web Vitals migrate south
Anonymous

HTML+CSS: Bloated stylesheets inflating your bundle. JS: Tiny bird that asyncs your sanity into oblivion
Anonymous

Remember when progressive enhancement meant HTML and CSS shipped the UI and JS was a chirp, not a 3MB hydration nest of transitive deps
Deleted Account 4y

cool parrot, but where is the funny?
1. dev_meme 4y
  
  JavaScript “can” do what HTML and CSS can.
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y
  
  Magyar vagy?
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  Nem kínai
  
  @dsmagikswsa 4y
  
  Lame joke though
2. @dsmagikswsa 4y
  
  The color is similar….but I don’t get the joke too…
  
  Deleted Account 4y
  
  Probably 1 yr of FE experience isn't enough to understand the joke
  
  @Eugene1319 4y
  
  I think, that mango is a kinda static object with some styles, but carrot is a thing with interactive features that might be implemented only with JS ) idk
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  CSS is many things, but static isn't it
  
  Deleted Account 4y
  
  there are animations in css
dev_meme 4y

don't be suck bro
@callofvoid0 4y

birdgo
Deleted Account 4y

Here u go
@callofvoid0 4y

appird
@callofvoid0 4y

melird
@azizhakberdiev 4y

Guys who tell that css is turing complete and make carousels and other shit and constanting that js is useless are more funny
1. Deleted Account 4y
  
  wait, is css turing complete‽
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2497146/is-css-turing-complete
2. @RiedleroD 4y
  
  190.204.17.126
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Umm, what
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  joke about me having your IP-Adress. hackerman threats and stuff
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  wait you know where I pee ?
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Yes, we know where you do pee
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  thats wierd I paid her not to tell anything to anybody 'bout what we did
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  well I paid her more. in fact, I was her ALL ALONG
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  you are going through things that you don't know what it can result in
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  maybe I am chaotic
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Well, nearly everyone has a 15cm long tracking device in pocket, why are you surprised?
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  well mine is just for peeing purpose
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  lol, I didn't mean...
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  ah that didn't work
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  wait you mean cellphones ?
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Yes
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  no, he meant the rod between your legs, which is a tracking antennae by bill gates
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  rod by Microsoft™️
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  not micro, nor soft. Rod! Buy now!
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  that was genious
  
  @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  It's not a rod — it's a stick! Joy stick! (BTW, Microsoft never made joy sticks, AFAIR, just game pads.)
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  Xbox from Microsoft
  
  @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  That's just a game pad.
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  what you call the little thingies on it
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Joystick
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  tata
  
  @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  "Knüppel" in German and "Кнюппель" in Russian. IDK about English, though — "hat switch" perhaps.
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  translator says these words are "sticks"
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  analog stick
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  I mean, XBox controllers have Joysticks
  
  @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  Real joy sticks are real thing!
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  Because they work like these things: joysticks
  
  @NevermindExpress 4y
  
  Afair they did
  
  @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  I see nobody got UDP joke, again. I'm resending it
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  maybe because somepeople like the ones who are clapping at this https://t.me/devs_chat/62336 are using IE
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  Not just that. We know the precise location and position in which you shit.
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  because I'm that CSS guy
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  not supported in my region I guess
@azizhakberdiev 4y

127.0.0.1
@callofvoid0 4y

I was just trying to get a better wifi signal
@azizhakberdiev 4y

Everybody lives in 127.0.0.1, where else to go? Pee outside?
@RiedleroD 4y

I personally like 192.168.0.1
1. @azizhakberdiev 4y
  
  But social toilets are not free
@azizhakberdiev 4y

Another question, why these rods or sticks scripted to automatically get activated every morning?
1. @SamsonovAnton 4y
  
  It's just a wake timer to get updates while you don't use the thing.
  
  @callofvoid0 4y
  
  this definition was the best to describe it

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