Let me tell you a story. It was midnight. I had just launched a shiny new client website — complete with animations, parallax effects, and enough JavaScript to power a spaceship. I was feeling smug. Until the next morning, when the client texted me: “Why is my site slower than my grandma’s dial-up?” Ouch. I popped open Lighthouse and boom: performance score — 42. My ego? Flattened. That was my wake-up call. Front end performance isn’t a luxury. It’s survival. You can have the sexiest UI in town, but if it loads like a snail dragging a brick, no one cares. Not Google. Not your users. Not even your mom. So here’s the hard truth, my friend: if you’re not actively optimizing your front end, you’re actively losing users. Let’s fix that. ⁰ 1. Kill the JavaScript Bloat (Yes, Yours Too) Do you need that carousel plugin from 2014? Or the 250kb animation library to spin a button? No. You don’t. Audit your scripts. Tree-shake. Lazy-load. Or just delete stuff. import _ from 'lodash' ;...
Frontend Web Developer and self-learner.