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"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."

...so I did, after some contemplation at what this app will attempt to do, and am greeted with a brief amount of static text and two animations that could easily be GIFs.

IMHO, having to display a spinner at all is usually a symptom of the "modern web". Ironically, this app itself didn't display any while it was loading.

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All the content on the site is bundled in the javascript -- even all the text. The only markup in the html file's body is an empty DIV.

That's ~55 KiB of minified JavaScript (roughly, Act I of Macbeth in size) for a page with 82 words. Modern web development sometimes goes out of its way to be overcomplicated.

Ironically, the animation is all being done with CSS.

Surprising, I figured this would be CSS animations.

edit: it is, it's just also a React app

lol, the nerve

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