You no longer need JavaScript
September 5, 2025
I think there’s some beauty in leaving it all behind. Not just the frameworks, but JavaScript altogether. Not every site needs JavaScript. Perhaps your e-commerce site needs it for its complex carts and data visualization dashboards, but is it really a necessity for most of what’s out there?
It’s actually pretty incredible what HTML and CSS alone can achieve.So, what do you say?
My goal with this article is to share my perspectives on the web, as well as introduce many aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with. I’m not trying to make you give up JavaScript, I’m just trying to show you everything that’s possible, leaving it up to you to pick what works best for whatever you’re working on.I think there’s a lot most web developers don’t know about CSS.And I think JS is often used where better alternatives exist.
So, let me show you what’s out there.
Here’s a roundup of the sorts of things you may have relied on JavaScript to do but which you no longer need it for. Relentlessly, the web platform improves with more and more capability accessible declaratively via CSS and HTML. So keep up with that and get all kinds of long-term benefits for the things you build.
