@samir React literally turned Facebook's web app from the best ux ever to appear on a website, with actions reflected immediately and consistently, on 2006 hardware, into glitchy garbage that's unusably slow on 2020 hardware.
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@samir React literally turned Facebook's web app from the best ux ever to appear on a website, with actions reflected immediately and consistently, on 2006 hardware, into glitchy garbage that's unusably slow on 2020 hardware. 5 comments
@lispi314 @samir Then they rewrote it entirely as a client side web app where all the rendering, rather than changes by user action, were implemented in js with lots of round trips to server and a heavy client side data model outside the DOM. It's completely analogous to difference between how a shell with readline works vs how curses works. |
@dalias @samir Was it really that way? I never used it so I don't actually know.