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by mastermachetier 3509 days ago
The UI on this app is spectacular actually . I want to sit down with the team that wrote it and just ask questions for days.
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Performance is poor on my older laptop. Maybe I'm getting to the point where web devs should leave me in the dust, but, it's also a shame to waste resources on newer systems. I suspect the problem is that it's built on React, which struggles with large data sets.

If the team is reading this, I'd bring up a point made on the Netflix dev blog: the key to great React perf is doing the expensive stuff outside of React. Do it low-level, stitch it in with lifecycle callbacks. You can end up keeping most of your code in React's world, while fixing most of the performance problem.

There's a decent chance some of them are reading this thread; what would you want to ask them?