Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its React Framework

Post by goldbeck » Tue, Apr 18, 2017, 9:37 PM UTC

nightski wrote: post #50

acemarke wrote: post #40

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Your comment seems to be a bit of a non-sequitur. Application development is complex, period. Posix development is complicated. Qt is big and complicated. Makefiles are complicated. Autotools is complicated. Big Java server apps are complicated. C++ is complicated. We've just hit the point where people are trying to do the same thing in a browser. Would you prefer to build your application using Make, Scons, Waf, CMa…

The benefits you acknowledge (distribution) are not because of the tech but in spite of it. At the end of the day all it would take is one of the 3 major browser vendors to offer an alternative. That alternative could be distributed to a large percentage of desktops in a relatively quick manner saving billions if not trillions of dollars in wasted productivity. It will never happen though. * EDIT: This comes from som…

Post by bostonvaulter2 » Tue, Apr 18, 2017, 9:39 PM UTC

spicyj wrote: post #29

undershirt wrote: post #27

any news on bundle size? and maybe Closure Compiler compatibility for dead code elimination?

No final numbers yet, but we recently switched to Rollup for our own builds which will be part of 16.0, and we'll do some more work on file size in the next few months. For DCE, we've started splitting some features like createClass out of the main package ( https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2017/04/07/react-v15.5... ) which will reduce the bundle size for anyone not using them, regardless of how they compile the…

Post by EugeneOZ » Tue, Apr 18, 2017, 9:40 PM UTC

acemarke wrote: post #40

metalliqaz wrote: post #36

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I admire your exceptional work cataloguing these resources. However, just one look at that giant horde of links is, to me, a perfect demonstration of why the front-end development ecosystem is way out of control. Its amazing to me that the autoconf/automake/libtool system for making write-once-run-everywhere *nix applications is downright simple by today's standards. Every year the hot libraries change, the build too…

Your comment seems to be a bit of a non-sequitur. Application development is complex, period. Posix development is complicated. Qt is big and complicated. Makefiles are complicated. Autotools is complicated. Big Java server apps are complicated. C++ is complicated. We've just hit the point where people are trying to do the same thing in a browser. Would you prefer to build your application using Make, Scons, Waf, CMa…

Post by Tloewald » Tue, Apr 18, 2017, 9:42 PM UTC

metalliqaz wrote: post #36

acemarke wrote: post #11

I'll repeat the comment I made in the "React 15.5" thread a couple weeks ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14063818 ): For those who are interested in some of the details of the work that's going on, Lin Clark's recent talk on "A Cartoon Intro to Fiber" at ReactConf 2017 is excellent [0]. There's a number of other existing writeups and resources on how Fiber works [1] as well. The roadmap for 15.5 and 16.0 m…

I admire your exceptional work cataloguing these resources. However, just one look at that giant horde of links is, to me, a perfect demonstration of why the front-end development ecosystem is way out of control. Its amazing to me that the autoconf/automake/libtool system for making write-once-run-everywhere *nix applications is downright simple by today's standards. Every year the hot libraries change, the build too…

Post by kerkeslager » Tue, Apr 18, 2017, 9:43 PM UTC

ng12 wrote: post #45

metalliqaz wrote: post #36

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I admire your exceptional work cataloguing these resources. However, just one look at that giant horde of links is, to me, a perfect demonstration of why the front-end development ecosystem is way out of control. Its amazing to me that the autoconf/automake/libtool system for making write-once-run-everywhere *nix applications is downright simple by today's standards. Every year the hot libraries change, the build too…

> the browser is a bad app platform and javascript is a bad language Yeah, and we're finally making real progress towards making it better. I used to do web development because nobody else wanted to, now I do because it's really fun. This is a forum for hackers -- we should be excited about the unsolved problems instead of complaining that things are changing.