Aug. 24, 2023, 3:19 p.m. | Artur Ampilogov

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Key Takeaways



  • WWW is built on top of REST principles.

  • Modern Web development violates REST principles.

  • Pure HTML is not suitable for modern web development.

  • HTML can be improved with declarative fetch requests, DOM block replacements, and loading code on demand.

  • WASM can replace JavaScript in browsers when it provides more functionality to the runtime.


Website development has seen multiple approaches during the 23 years of the World Wide Web's (WWW) existence. In this article, I review the principles of …

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