MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
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Re: MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
#2Interesting that they didn't go with Blazor.
Re: MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
#3Interesting that they didn't go with Blazor.
Office for web already committed to React, Blazor barely production ready, Office team doesn't seem to be a big fan of .Net, C++ or JS all the way
Re: MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
#4It is still powered by a browser engine, so will this really make a difference?
Re: MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
#5I hope this also takes care of the battery life issue. Teams video meetings will take my 8 hour battery life, and suck it all down in under an hour. Zoom would not even put a dent in my battery any more than me doing my regular work.
Re: MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
#6Wonder why WebView2 would be any better than Electron? They are both Chromium based and if kept ups to date should be almost identical, would it just be saving disk space and sharing some memory since it would be using a single install of the browser engine?
Re: MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
#7Wonder why WebView2 would be any better than Electron? They are both Chromium based and if kept ups to date should be almost identical, would it just be saving disk space and sharing some memory since it would be using a single install of the browser engine?
Shouldn’t it also help significantly with memory usage, if the user is also browsing the web or using other WebView2 apps?
Re: MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
#8"Ditching Electron" is a clickbait - it doesn't go native, just switches to their own clone which seems very reasonable to me as long as they are capable and willing of maintaining it.
Switching from Angular to React seems weird. What for? AFAIK the only way React is better is there are more developers familiar with it. I wonder if they considered switching to PHP instead /s
Re: MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
#9Wonder why WebView2 would be any better than Electron? They are both Chromium based and if kept ups to date should be almost identical, would it just be saving disk space and sharing some memory since it would be using a single install of the browser engine?
> Wonder why WebView2 would be any better than Electron?
Because its under their own control. Using a platform you control is great if you actually have the resources to maintain it.
Re: MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.
#10Wonder why WebView2 would be any better than Electron? They are both Chromium based and if kept ups to date should be almost identical, would it just be saving disk space and sharing some memory since it would be using a single install of the browser engine?
On a single PC it probably wouldn’t matter that much, but if distributed at scale, the savings in bandwidth could be enormous. Electron is quite large after all.
Teams shipped with incredibly outdated versions of Electron for a very long time.