alt Hacker NewsYeah, but if your website with, you know, text and stuff, doesn't do any stupid and unnecessary crap, it doesn't matter where the nonexistent unnecessary yet expensive code doesn't run.
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Well yeah but if you do actually need things like images, animations, high frequency updates, etc, this is actually a pretty good overview of how to approach it. Also learned that react uses posting to a MessageChannel to yield!
You'd be surprised how expensive it is to render text, although unless your page is very large you won't see it being slow on modern systems.
Sure, but there are sites like HN and there are sites like https://earth.nullschool.net/
What's your point? Are you saying all animations and rendering are unnecessary?
Amazing how you are being so down voted, most webpages do utter crap that no one would want the webpages to be doing other then advertisers. Really most things should be text and if we lived in a more cooperative world everything would be easy to parse and manipulate text with some video and images and perhaps various well defined interface types for different services that can be implemented in various ways as to the users liking.
and if you have no website at all, it takes zero seconds to load.
But for people who are developing websites that are more than just text, this is an excellently written article and great advice.
It's funny, for mobile app dev it feels like the community are a lot of focused on staying off the main thread, this is the first time I've come across one for webdev.