Why do people mention so often about js being disabled? It’s such an insignificant use case imho. Ssr(in js world) is mostly for public pages who get scanned by search bots, right?
A website that is able to function without JavaScript increases its accessibility, that doesn't mean that the user explicitly disabled JavaScript. You could be on a train in a 5G-equipped country with an unreliable connection. Have you came across a website having problems with stylesheets completely missing, due to CORS, caching, etc?
If the document is able to carry out navigation, without having to rely on downloading a non-negligeable amount of JS to hydrate the page, it improves the experience for that 90th percentile enourmously. Us web developers are often privileged with a very good internet connections. It's not necessarily anti-JS thinking, and SSR for crawlers generally as no longer been relevant for a number of years, it improves UX.
Edit: this also reminds me of [1], a 8.5 MB HTML file with 27.5k tweets was faster to paint than a single tweet in a React application. It depends on whether the UX can be improved by using more JS, for most websites I think less is more.
Can't agree more with you. In my more than 20 years in this industry I'm still to find one single person at work, or a single customer with JavaScript disabled.
At this point if you have JavaScript disabled is your problem.
It's like having a car and not wanting to put gas on it and pushing it around and complaining why you have to push your car.
Not saying we don't abuse its usage, but having it disables is just extremist
