Has the focus shifted? Admittedly a trailing indicator, but the rate of disasters crossing my desk has not slowed. And I hear more lipservice from the worst offenders than I observe concrete action.
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I mean, Preact and Lit and Svelte et al are chugging along, doing the good work, and we very much need them. But I don't see the React community, e.g., actually making a turn & observe no real leadership from FB on this.
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Do you have a ranked list of requests for React leadership? e.g. is your top wish to reduce the size of React itself? Or for CRA to do something? (What would you have it do, other than maybe failing production builds with large bundle sizes?)
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For years I've been begging for: - guidance re: bundle sizes & mobile in their perf docs - movement on React size - public discussion of what it takes to keep perf in line at FB (pipeline, metrics, etc.) There's more, but that would show minimal interest in the problem.
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“Movement on React size” do you mean “set a goal to be as small as Preact”? If not, how small is “small enough”?
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Lemmie put it this way: if a dozen other frameworks can do what your tool does in half the size or less, how important is size to you?
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I mean there are tradeoffs, essentially missing the synthetic event system can be annoying when supporting older browsers. Imo concurrent doesn't bring a lot to the table for smaller-medium applications
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@slightlylate are you saying, “React needs to ditch the synthetic event system”? Or just “React needs to code golf more”? The former is a pretty big request; it wouldn’t be backwards compatible.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
I mean I don't even think it's about golfing, their build-step and such are highly optimized. The core-code is very lenient to serving multiple media (browsers, native, consoles, ...) which has a price + react-dom is expensive with synthetic events and probably other minors
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I'm saying that putting older browsers ahead of a usable mobile web is an explicit directional choice. Legacy could easily be opt-in extra for those that *really* need it. Many ways to skin this cat.
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