Do indecipherable backend error messages creep into your web frontend? And the only person who knew how to wrangle the tech left ages ago? And homegrown frameworks have since strangled any attempt at progress in your codebase? There is still hope! No matter how old and rotten your legacy web front is, there is always one way out: web standards! Standards have always been the least common denominator for any web technology, from ancient legacy projects to the latest high-tech frontend framework. Thus, every project is salvageable: all you need is modern web standards, a bit of endurance… and this talk, which explains how the latest and greatest in browser technology can be leveraged to rescue and refactor even the oldest and most decrepit web projects! No matter if your goal is to refactor an existing ancient web project or if you want to prevent a calcified legacy mess in the first place: this session details how and why web standards can be used to refactor legacy web projects!