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Here's my hot take: Instead of waiting 20s for your truly interactive site with refine-as-you-type search bar to load, which, when finally loaded, will lag so much on my mobile connection that it is just plain annoying, I will use your competitor's site which loads within 1s and has a plain old <input> field for search.

Not every site needs to be truly interactive. Not every site needs JS. Unless you're building a 3G+ or desktop-only web experience, use it responsibly.

And everytime I want to change anything at all or see updated data, I'll have to reload the page. JS has objectively made the web better.

> javascript rules, and you can't build truly interactive sites without it

But does the website you're building need to be interactive? Usually not, unless it's a webapp. (Maybe for form validation but that's pretty much it.)

Challenge accepted!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...