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David Nolen

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JavaScript Modularity Shaming

Pete Hunt of React fame recently got into an online discussion about the pros and cons of Webpack vs. Browserify . In the discussion he inadvertently coins a hilarious term for a form of rhetoric in some circles of the JavaScript community - “Modularity Shaming”. React itself has been on the receiving end of…

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100,000 DOM Updates

Click the table of zeroes once. Note that the text input field remains responsive even as we run 100,000 updates on the DOM. The colors of the table show the render batching boundaries. Note, I would not try this on a mobile device ;)