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“React proponents might claim that React will teach you modern UI, but from what I've seen it barely copes with modern UI.”
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Great read by @keithamus
https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/i-dont-have-time-to-learn-react/ I don't have time to learn React.
Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean perfect website performance?🔍✨
As Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several experiments, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated, making sites seem more performant than they really are:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/06/how-hack-google-lighthouse-scores-2024/
Do perfect Lighthouse scores mean the performance of your website is perfect? As it turns out, Lighthouse is influenced by a number of things that can be manipulated and bent to make sites seem more performant than they really are, as Salma Alam-Naylor demonstrates in several experiments.
Vercel’s Next.js v14 has shipped and (as one does) I had a look at the JavaScript footprint of the production build of Hello World:
v14 (2023): 299 kB
v13 (2022): 272 kB
v12 (2021): 228 kB
Unfortunately the same trend continues, even with a new bundler: the bundles are growing!
(and with Tailwind included by default, too)
I'm disappointed that the myth that the "DOM is slow" persists to this day. Writing to the DOM is plenty fast, as long as it's at the right time, and you're not trying to do something unwise like serialising your entire app on every interaction / every frame.
You don't need a VDOM to manage the DOM. You just need to avoid giving it excessive and unnecessary work — perhaps the kind of work that comes from forcefully trying to apply a paradigm that is a fundamental mismatch to the DOM's.
Friendly reminder that when a third-party provider requires you to load their script in a render-blocking manner, their problems become your problems.
Got an email about a massive performance regression from a past client yesterday. Turns out a third-party provider was (still is) having server issues causing an absolutely massive regression in LCP. Thankfully an easy and quick fix: remove the script.
Always build with resilience in mind.
UPDATE: no need for further boosting. Thank you everyone!
My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,
"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."
https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1593726621340426241
Our "work with us" page: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/
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