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Comment by Klathmon | Hacker News Reader

This is a bit off topic, but does anyone reading this happen to know the status of async rendering in react?

There was chatter about it for version 16, and then nothing really else. I'm curious about what they are testing or at least planning in this area.

Unfortunately i've found it really hard to search for anything related to async rendering for react, as there is just so much other crap about react and "async" it just gets lost.

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You can track it here. Still plenty of work to do but we are making progress.

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/8830

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11566

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for and it seems all search engines have failed me!

Fibers? I thought they were implemented and that was what React 16 was all about.

From React 16 blog post (https://reactjs.org/blog/2017/09/26/react-v16.0.html):

>We think async rendering is a big deal, and represents the future of React. To make migration to v16.0 as smooth as possible, we’re not enabling any async features yet, but we’re excited to start rolling them out in the coming months. Stay tuned!

The rewrite was about adding the foundation for making this even possible. But there's still work to do before we can enable async rendering by default.

Ah ok thanks, not super familiar with react. Had seen a video about fibers/async and saw something about 16 implementing them. Put 2 and 2 together and got 5.

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