Extreme progressive enhancement

[rintaun]

As a paranoid luddite security-conscious user, I want to be able to fully (or at least mostly) use FallingFish without having JavaScript enabled.

Current situation

The website currently renders fully & correctly in production with JavaScript disabled. However, any interactive elements on the pages rely on JavaScript (e.g. GraphQL mutations) to function properly.

After experimenting with progressive enhancement for forms, I found that it is probably feasible for the entire website to fall back to server-side state management (at least for the features currently on the roadmap). That does, however, bring a not-insignificant amount of additional complexity, like state management to display flash messages (among many other things), for example.

Question

How much do we need / want this feature? It would be neat, but I'm not sure of the demand / true utility, and it would certainly slow development of new features in the future.

[rintaun]

Note: the situation has changed since this idea was originally written several months ago. Everything is currently statically rendered, rather than using server-side rendering, so this would be an even more significant hurdle.