"Enough with the javascript already" presentation

[bemurphy]

In 2013 you gave the very popular talk entitled "Enough with the javascript already". How do you feel about those ideas ~2 years later?

[nzakas]

Same. I still feel like people are doing too much in client side JavaScript and that ultimately leads to a lot of trouble down the road. I still feel that you should do as much as possible without JavaScript first, then add JavaScript as an enhancement where necessary.

[lozandier]

In regards to doing as much as possible without JavaScript, what's your thoughts on Web Components, an emerging thing that fundamentally change how we build components for JS but requires JS?

[nzakas]

I'm not sold on web components at the moment. Making a tag that does nothing unless JavaScript is present seems like a recipe for trouble. I'm going they evolve into something a bit more rational.