Eleventy, Alpine and Tailwind: towards a lightweight Jamstack - Nicolas Goutay

Talk given by Nicolas Goutay at the online JAMstack Berlin Meetup #14 on July 27th, 2020.

During the last two years, the median webpage size across the web increased by over 30%, from 1.5Mb to 2Mb—resulting in worse performance for end-users.
While the Jamstack philosophy is rooted in frugality, many recent Jamstack approaches rely on heavy JavaScript frameworks that give us top-notch Developer Experience at the expense of heavier web pages. What is the true cost of those frameworks? And how can we alleviate it?