Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web – Web Performance and Site Speed Consultant
January 29, 2025
If you’re going to build for the web, build on the web and build with the web.If I was only able to give one bit of advice to any company: iterate quickly on a slow-moving platform.In the last year alone, I have seen two completely different clients in two completely different industries sink months and months into framework upgrades. Collectively, they’ve spent tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of dollars rewriting entire projects just to maintain feature parity with the previous iteration. This is not meaningful or productive work—it is time sunk into merely keeping themselves at square one.
Source: Build for the Web, Build on the Web, Build with the Web – Web Performance and Site Speed Consultant
With major new releases of React and Tailwind here or close, teams might start considering the efforts they’ll need to put into keeping up to date.
Here Harry Roberts asks developers to consider these costs and ultimately
If you’re going to build for the web, build on the web and build with the web.
If I was only able to give one bit of advice to any company: iterate quickly on a slow-moving platform.
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