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by stabbles 2719 days ago
It's also ridiculously fast, both frontend and backend!

The frontend virtual dom was initially Mithril and has later been replaced with snabbdom [1]. No React or Vue.js.

[1] https://github.com/snabbdom/snabbdom
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virtualwhys 2718 days ago
It's fast on the backend due to running on the JVM and being completely non-blocking (Scala + Akka + MongoDB)

Combined with a lightweight-ish frontend (Cordova build for native mobile) and, voila, impressive performance with a decent UI all while not having to maintain separate web, iOS, and Android apps.

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krick 2717 days ago
Am I mistaken, or was it that lichess was actually in PHP a couple of years ago? I seem to remember that I was surprised to learn that it is Laravel+Vue. But maybe I'm mixing things up.
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virtualwhys 2716 days ago
You're probably confusing Lichess for another app, the founder has been in the Scala community since at least 2012, if not before.

Although maybe in the early days it was, for some reason, written in PHP; I'd be quite surprised if that were the case.

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