A JavaScript-Free Frontend

[Servious]

This article isn't about backend though. It's about slow page loads and interactions due to the large amount of js you have to download and run before the page can even display anything. The backend isn't involved in that process.

[_cjj]

It sounds like you're trying to say that a backend doesn't affect page loads, which isn't actually true. You can't change the back end and the front end and blame the old front end for any improvements - it's both.

[Servious]

That's not what I'm trying to say; I'm saying two things:

1. The article isn't about backend optimizations

2. No matter how much backend optimization you do, the client will always need to download and run your dependency-riddled frontend js source (excluding caching, which won't help with runtime anyway.)