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Darius Kazemi

At work today I removed the `react-color` color picker widget library from our web app, which is 130kb of JS minified! You know what you can use instead of this in many cases?

<input type="color">

It's a thing!

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do

28 Feb 2023 at 2:10 | Open on friend.camp
16 comments
mike bayer :python: :redhat:
westbrook

@darius And if you ever needed something more @kulykov will drop this on you for 2.7KB github.com/web-padawan/vanilla So many awesome smoll things that modern web gives us. 🚀

28 Feb 2023 at 2:25 | Open on mastodon.social
Darius Kazemi

@westbrook @kulykov I love it. 2.7kb seems actually reasonable for this scope of thing

28 Feb 2023 at 2:26 | Open on friend.camp
Touk
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juv3nal

@darius i've never had occasion to need this, but it *is* cool.

28 Feb 2023 at 2:38 | Open on phire.place
Rich Felker

@darius Everything about React is awful.

28 Feb 2023 at 2:45 | Open on hachyderm.io
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Ricardo Tavares

@darius Last time I tried it you couldn’t paste colors into it.

28 Feb 2023 at 9:16 | Open on phpc.social
Boris Schapira

@darius We could possibly improve this situation by empowering the community to educate new developers. I tried something: github.com/casesandberg/react-

28 Feb 2023 at 10:35 | Open on hachyderm.io
tech himbo

@darius tomfoolery like this is why i left frontend

28 Feb 2023 at 14:53 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Henrick

@darius at work today I removed React and saved myself from having migraines the rest of the year

28 Feb 2023 at 18:55 | Open on indieweb.social
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