The 500KB CSS Catastrophe

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The 500KB CSS Catastrophe

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The eternal frontend struggle in three acts:

Act 1: Your website and performance are perfectly balanced on the seesaw. Life is good.

Act 2: "Let me just add this tiny CSS library that saves three lines of code." *Balance shifts slightly*

Act 3: *500KB later* Your website is now crushing performance into the stratosphere while the hand of fate (probably your project manager) reaches in to fix the disaster.

And this, friends, is why we can't have nice things in web development. Those "lightweight" libraries are the gateway drug to bundle bloat.

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