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Re:Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible wit... by M4v3R on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @03:33AM (#13587994)
> React has amazing reasons why it is fundamentally better than most of the other libraries for projects at scale

And yet somehow even on my quite powerful Macbook Facebook can halt to a freeze for me when scrolling long feeds or comment threads. One would guess that React would handle those scenarios gracefully, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

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Re:Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible wit... by pluma on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @11:36AM (#13590496)
You seem to think that because Facebook's website uses React it's a React app. Facebook is no different from other continuously developed applications that evolve organically. In other words: it's probably not a good example for a "best of breed" pure React app.

I'm guessing Facebook uses React more on facebook.com than it uses React Native in their mobile app (I think there was an article a while back on HN about the ridiculous amount of packages in their mobile app, which is a testament to their policy of bolting on new code instead of rewriting the old unless actually necessary) but it's a safe guess to say that there's more to facebook.com's frontend than just React.

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