Celebrate JavaScript Naked Day every year on April 24

Today my personal web site is being served sans-JavaScript in honor of JavaScript Naked Day.

I implemented this on my web site using a global JS_ENABLED in my Eleventy configuration file (propagated to templates via Eleventy’s global data). This removed the <script> elements in the output of the site’s build.

Origin Story #

It started with a toot celebrating CSS Naked Day:

It’s #CSSNakedDay! I love this trend—it highlights the importance of a foundation of good HTML. We need a similar one for JavaScript! #JSNakedDay should be April 10 😅

Related: I first wrote about CSS Naked Day in April 2020.

And then Simon MacDonald ran with it, settling on April 24:

In some countries, “April 24” can be written as “4/24” — which is also the HTTP error code for a failed dependency. JS Naked Day promotes the fact that websites should work without a dependency on JavaScript.

Simon even built a web site: js-naked-day.org