I can’t comment on this one specifically, but SVG animations take notably more CPU usage to render/animate in Chromium browsers compared to GIF or WAAPI. And they block the main thread for at least some animations.
I didn’t say don’t use libraries at all. There’s a wide spectrum between rolling your own everything and putting a massive abstraction layer framework between you and the platform.
My experiences don’t really align with yours - most people are playing “follow the leader” with tech - “X uses Y, so we should to” and that’s it.
To your point though - use the platform. Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS. All of that will be reusable no matter where you pivot and not lock you in to a pattern that might not work well for where you land.
To your third point - the author would recommend doing research and prototyping with all the options you might consider based on your use-cases. He actively avoids being prescriptive in generic contexts like this because he wants to avoid arbitrary dogmatic solutions (like React tends to be).
Source: I work closely with him and have been frustrated with this stance until I saw people using Next and Remix for things like landing or contact pages.
Cool project, a mild pet peeve with this type of thing - I have to read 75% of the README before I find out what it even does. The first bits make a huge assumption about what the reader knows.
I’ve had a project I’ve been doing for ~6 months learning python through Copilot+ChatGPT. It feels like any other project that accrues technical debt, but that debt is just a lot weirder. It was rough at first, but refactoring has gotten a lot better recently with bigger context sizes.
"relies on Edge" is a bit inaccurate. WebView2 and Edge ship from the same codebase, and are hardlinked if they both exist, but are separate from an install/uninstall perspective.
It's not Electron, it's using Edge WebView2 which is drastically different from MSHTML.dll in many ways. If you have it installed you can see the msedgewebview2.exe processes in Task Manager.
Talking about “actually” learning something feels very “no true Scotsman”. You could replace GPT in your comment with StackOverflow, Google, or a textbook and they’d read like the same criticism, right? Referencing something until you remember it is normal learning?