> This post is for those of you with a complex React application. If you're building something smaller, you might not need to focus on performance yet. Don't prematurely optimize! Go build things!
This is bit meta, but it's really, really awesome to see an article on performance begin with this. Well done author :-)
It instantly inspires confidence that the material to follow is worthwhile reading. Knowing the author has started out with this philosophy I trust more that what's covered will focus on things that actually matter, rather than just being a crawl through every and any technique or quirk that they've come across, regardless of its relative impact.
Performance is one of those things where more is obviously better, all other things equal, but that last 20% of effort invested is almost always time that could be better spent improving other aspects of the average use case of any given product, let alone the average product.
This is bit meta, but it's really, really awesome to see an article on performance begin with this. Well done author :-)
It instantly inspires confidence that the material to follow is worthwhile reading. Knowing the author has started out with this philosophy I trust more that what's covered will focus on things that actually matter, rather than just being a crawl through every and any technique or quirk that they've come across, regardless of its relative impact.
Performance is one of those things where more is obviously better, all other things equal, but that last 20% of effort invested is almost always time that could be better spent improving other aspects of the average use case of any given product, let alone the average product.