As someone who doesn't spend much time on the front end of things, this post renewed my interest. Great explanation of tech used and why. Actually using it on my Nexus 5 was unlike any site I've used before.
Author here - thanks a lot! :) I think many of the emerging performance bottlenecks in webdev are on the client rather than the server, so there's definitely a lot more research that needs to be done here. In particular, I feel like the whole "web worker" angle has been seriously overlooked, even though the tech is ~5 years old.
> In particular, I feel like the whole "web worker" angle has been seriously overlooked, even though the tech is ~5 years old.
I wonder how much of that stems from the fact that IE didn't support them until 10 and Safari til 8. I'm not sure about dates/numbers, but mobile browsers were pretty late in support too, weren't they?
Author of MUI here - It's awesome to see Pokedex on HN! Pokedex uses the MUI CSS framework to great effect. We put a lot of work into making the library small and light and we'd love to see more developers take it for a spin so please try it out for your next project. https://www.muicss.com
Granted it's a very different beast, but this site puts the native Slack Android app to shame. Smooth like butter. I'm not bitter at all. Especially not bitter after I used the iOS Slack App. Okay, maybe a little.