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React is absolutely performant. A developer who makes a slow React site would make a slow site with something else.
by robertoandred 2y ago
React is absolutely performant. A developer who makes a slow React site would make a slow site with something else.
- xcrunner529 2y agoTell that to all the former PHP developers. Where are these performant React sites? The largest and best tech companies out there certainly can’t do it.
- robertoandred 2y agoThe same former PHP developers responsible for all those slow WordPress sites?
- xcrunner529 2y agoThe ones who made react.
- TiredOfLife 2y agohttps://next-faster.vercel.app/ https://next-faster.vercel.app/
- dimgl 2y agoUh... I'm pretty sure Compass.com is running on Next.js...
- cosmotic 2y agoThey're a wide chasm between what one can make and what is led to making. React can lead to fast, responsive websites, though you'd be fighting against a current pulling you out to a bloated, buggy mess. There's a unique stench that comes from many react sites where everything is a skeleton screen, everything loads slowly, history rewriting is busted, there's no hotlinking, and scrolling is glitchy. Peek under the hood, it's almost always react. Facebook.com quality is the outlier, not the likely outcome.
- crvst 2y agoReact is far from performant for SSR, and it simply can’t be, as it wasn’t designed with backend needs in mind. The fact that it works at all is more of a happy accident or side effect. Current approaches are more like workarounds than proper solutions for making it function effectively on servers. Most importantly, it’s also not particularly performant on the client side in real-world scenarios. For evidence, here’s a guy testing major websites using his awesome react-scan tool: https://x.com/aidenybai/status/1861442057598062653 https://x.com/aidenybai/status/1861442057598062653