The Sustainable Web, Engineered with INES AKRAP – Smashing Meets Sustainability 2026

How many front-end decisions get made because of a real constraint? Not a deadline, not a client preference, but a real constraint. The kind that forces you to ask: does this actually need to exist? Spoiler: a lot of what sustainable looks like is also what performant looks like. The same questions, how heavy is this, who actually asked for it, what does it cost someone on a slow connection, turn out to be both. In this talk, Ines makes the case that sustainable front-end engineering isn't something new to learn. It's what good engineering has always looked like. We just didn't have the word for it. We'll look at the decisions that carry the most weight, the difference between shipping code and building something with intention, and what the web could look like when this way of thinking stops being optional.