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I have a question not related to the performance: can you share more details about your UI stack and dev workflows (do you use something more than e.g: webpack and babel)? Looking at the screenshots at the homepage [0], your app looks both complex and cool :). Also any recommendations for performant charting/graphing library that plays well with React?

What do you use for state management? Flux, alt, redux, something else?

Thank you for sharing your experience and tips regarding developing React apps!

[0] https://benchling.com/

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> can you share more details about your UI stack and dev workflows

Our front-end stack was primarily just webpack (no JSX because CoffeeScript's terseness sufficed). We recently started the migration to using Babel with ES6 and JSX because of the linting / tooling / community behind them.

I will be sharing a more in-depth look at my debugging workflow in the next post, so be on the lookout :-)

> Also any recommendations for performant charting/graphing library that plays well with React?

I haven't used many charting / graphing libraries, sorry!

> What do you use for state management?

We were fairly early adopters to React and Flux, so we have our own internal implementation of Flux. I haven't worked too much with the other state management solutions, but many of them seem like good, opinionated architectures.

> Thank you for sharing your experience and tips regarding developing React apps!

No problem :-)

You might consider ZingChart[0] for your charting/graphing needs. I've found it to be performant with large datasets and have had some success pairing it with React by writing a wrapper along the lines of https://github.com/zingchart/ZingChart-React/ which unfortunately wasn't suitable for our use case. I'd consider open sourcing the code but don't have the time to clean it up at present.

[0] http://www.zingchart.com/

Hi there! I'm the author who wrote that react wrapper and am interested in how it didn't fit your use case and what alternative you came up with. Feedback would be extremely helpful in improving the wrapper! Shoot me an email at mschultz@zingchart.com if you're interested.

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