Githubs performance has been rapidly degrading ever since they started rewriting everything in React. It's basically impossible to view diffs now because they often fail to load, render correctly, or just are incredibly slow.
Were they using vanilla js? That's impressive if yes.
Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
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#32It would be a really great feature if it worked correctly.
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#33https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/c...
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#34Disappointing devs still try to justify javascript on large sites like git.
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#35It's very obvious that they've unleashed a bunch of very junior developers on front end, it's I'm surprised that it still works. The previous AJAXed implementation had its haters, but at least it was very close to bare HTML on HTTP.
Re: Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
#36Githubs performance has been rapidly degrading ever since they started rewriting everything in React. It's basically impossible to view diffs now because they often fail to load, render correctly, or just are incredibly slow.
Re: Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
#37It's very obvious that they've unleashed a bunch of very junior developers on front end, it's I'm surprised that it still works. The previous AJAXed implementation had its haters, but at least it was very close to bare HTML on HTTP.
Maybe they have given most of the development over to AI?
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#38It's very obvious that they've unleashed a bunch of very junior developers on front end, it's I'm surprised that it still works. The previous AJAXed implementation had its haters, but at least it was very close to bare HTML on HTTP.
Sometimes things already don't work. For example recently, I used Firefox and couldn't create an organization. It would just hang, when I clicked the green button to create it. Not sure how they could mess that one up, but when I used Chromium, it worked. It should be as simple as sending a form, but somehow they f'ed that up.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
They were, and still very much are, using web components. But they hired a team to do experiments to imagine the future of GitHub UI, and that team built everything in React. Now that team's work is being ported to the production UI.
Just use that thing that renders React 1000x faster, million JS or something