Tags: leanweb

WTF is the Lean Web, anyways? | Go Make Things

Three principles:

1. Embrace the platform
2. Favor small, modular tools
3. Build a web for everyone

How to build lean efficient websites in 2023 | Go Make Things

1. Start with mostly static HTML.
2. Progressively enhance the dynamic parts.
3. Pick small, focused tools.

Lean Web Club

New from Mr. Vanilla JS himself, Chris Ferdinandi:

A learning space for people who hate the complexity of modern web development.

It’ll be $29 a month or $299 a year (giving you two months worth for free).

Chris Ferdinandi: The Lean Web – WordPress.tv

This video of Chris’s presentation is well worth watching:

The web in 2020 is a bloated and over-engineered mess! Many modern web development “best practices” are making the web worse. This thought-provoking talk shares ideas on how to fix the problem as it explores an alternate set of best practices.

Chris Ferdinandi: The Lean Web | July 2020 - YouTube

A great presentation on taking a sensible approach to web development. Great advice, as always, from the blogging machine that is Chris Ferdinandi.

The web is a bloated, over-engineered mess. And, according to developer and educator Chris Ferdinandi, many of our modern “best practices” are actually making the web worse. In this talk, Chris explores The Lean Web, a set of principles for a simpler, faster world-wide web.

The Book | The Lean Web

This is such a great little web book from Chris Ferdinandi that you can read online for free.

1. Intro
2. Modern Best Practices
3. How did we get here?
4. Lean Web Principles
5. What now?

The Lean Web video from Boston CSS | Go Make Things

A good talk from from Chris Ferdinandi, who says:

One of the central themes of my talk on The Lean Web is that we as developers repeatedly take all of the great things the web and browsers give us out-of-the-box, break them, and then re-implement them poorly with JavaScript.