Healthcare, Selling Lemons, and the Price of Developer Experience
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Every now and then, a one blog post is published and it spurs a reaction or response in others that are, in turn, published as blogs posts, and a theme starts to emerge. That’s what happened this past week and the theme developed around the cost of JavaScript frameworks — a cost that, in this case, reveals just how darn important it is to use JavaScript responsibly.
Eric Bailey: Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm
This is where the story begins. Eric goes to a health service provider website to book an appointment and gets… a blank screen.
In addition to a terrifying amount of telemetry, Modern Health’s customer-facing experience is delivered using React and Webpack.