Dropping React and going back to raw JavaScript next?
I am still mourning pre-React GitHub. Maybe rose-tinted glasses, but it was so pleasant to use
I am still mourning pre-React GitHub. Maybe rose-tinted glasses, but it was so pleasant to use
For example https://diffs.com/ is built in React and it's basically instant.
If the entire page is rendered on the server, the information required to do so is presumably reasonably approximate (same datacenter). If most of the page is rendered on the client, the information needs to be pulled in from arbitrary physical distances.
At some point the engineering really is this simple.
"Oh no, we can't possibly do the computation of all that on our backend! Yikes! Let that run on every single client instead! Let users spend their own compute over and over."
culture.
https://diffshub.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412
Compare that to this:
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412/changes
I agree there are limitations bc of physics, but I don't think it explains this particular difference.
https://github.com/pierrecomputer/pierre/blob/main/packages/...
... albeit using React inspired terminology like props and hydration.
I think my point still stands that, if MSFT cared, it would be fast. The issue is not the technology choice in this case.
For example, look at their demo here: https://diffshub.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412
It's way faster than GitHub and you check the network tab.