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Why is the counter demo so slow? If you are compiling to JS/React I would expect it to be close to native perf no?

Because the logic is being processed at the backend and the data being transferred over WebSocket

Huh it totally is.

https://pynecone.io/docs/state/overview outlines that is the case but leaves out the detail that it's using Socket.io.

Gather if you want to use this then and have it not suck you are going to need some form of edge compute.

Wait, it can't generate static sites? This is gonna melt if more than a few hundred users join. Python's socket.io implementation is slow at best.

Something tells me it's not designed for hundreds of users and more like "Here is my data-scientist quasi-code thing and I want a web interface for it to show the non-code folk in my business unit".

Fair enough, that does seem like the most common use case.

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