We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
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Re: We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
#2This is the power of WebAssembly. It brings every language to the browser.
Re: We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
#3> a complex UI that TypeScript/React didn't scale well for
why do I have the feeling that virtual tables on tanstack would have solved their use case using typescript/react
Re: We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
#4[dead]
Re: We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
#5Would be interesting to see a follow up in a few months on whether the tradeoff from a heavier but widely used stack to a possibly more performant but certainly more esoteric one works out positively.
I can’t imagine trying to hire for a front end developer to work on something like this is that easy compared with finding a react dev.
Re: We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
#6They've decided to create their front end using https://go-app.dev/ . From that page: "Go-app is a package for building progressive web apps (PWA) with the Go programming language (Golang) and WebAssembly (Wasm)."
Re: We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
#7Is there a video of this ui??
Re: We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
#8Would love to see profiling to show where the React approach was falling short.
Re: We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
#9Is there a video of this ui??
I think some of it is shown on this page:
Re: We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly
#10Would be interesting to see a follow up in a few months on whether the tradeoff from a heavier but widely used stack to a possibly more performant but certainly more esoteric one works out positively. I can’t imagine trying to hire for a front end developer to work on something like this is that easy compared with finding a react dev.
Do you think maybe this is less of a big deal in the brave new world of chatGPT.
I know I have zero worries about having to code in a new language or framework with the ability to get answers so quickly to my dumb questions, but maybe that is because I’m still choosing languages and frameworks that are fairly popular and have so much online documentation that the LLMs know about them, and if something is really esoteric maybe the help wouldn’t be that good?