September 10, 2025 Just use HTML
I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML.
JavaScript is…
Slower to load
Slower to run
More prone to breaking
Harder to read and reason about
Doesn’t actually look like the final output
It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way.
I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and enhancing what’s already there, and adding interactivity that cannot (yet) but handled with HTML.
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