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Building swift yet functional apps should be what all developers aspire to. And since you do, we put together a collection of talks and tutorials on application performance and made them available for free. Whether your challenge is on the front-end or the back-end, these talks and workshops will give your great tips and inspire you to try new solutions.
React Day Berlin 2023React Day Berlin 2023
30 min
Brace Your React, New Core Web Vitals are Coming
In a few months, Google will DESTROY your React app......well, kinda. In March, Google is releasing a new Core Web Vital called Interaction to Next Paint (INP). It measures the speed of interactions – and every React site Ivan has seen so far had INP way in red. This is bad for any site that cares about SEO.In this talk, let’s learn how to prepare for the new Core Web Vital: how INP works, and how to improve it – both manually and with new React APIs like useTransition() and React Concurrency.
React Summit US 2023React Summit US 2023
27 min
R3ACT: A Frightening Look At Performance Figures
In the 10 yrs that React has been present, we've seen an unprecedented amount of progress on the web. The browsers have grown in capabilities by leaps and bounds, tooling exploded and frameworks slowly emerged to become quotidian technology. But just as the web changed, so did users of the web AND their needs. Performance engineers have monitored the lavish and liberal use of frameworks, resulting in the disservice to users AND their user experiences. "R3ACT" is talk that will uncover and discuss some performance perils as they appear on the web, with React in mind, supported by lab and rum data.
React Advanced Conference 2023React Advanced Conference 2023
22 min
Power Fixing React Performance Woes
Next.js and other wrapping React frameworks provide great power in building larger applications. But with great power comes great performance responsibility - and if you don’t pay attention, it’s easy to add multiple seconds of loading penalty on all of your pages. Eek! Let’s walk through a case study of how a few hours of performance debugging improved both load and parse times for the Centered app by several hundred percent each. We’ll learn not just why those performance problems happen, but how to diagnose and fix them. Hooray, performance! ⚡️
JS GameDev Summit 2023JS GameDev Summit 2023
7 min
Boost the Performance of Your WebGL Unity Games!
Unity, when deployed on the web, faces three critical challenges: build size, memory usage, and overall performance. This lecture delves deep into advanced optimization techniques to help you address each of these issues. Attendees will gain insights into:
- Effective strategies for optimizing textures, audio, and models.- A detailed analysis of our ASTC experimentation with Unity, shedding light on the unexpected results despite Unity's claims.- A comprehensive guide to Unity's memory profiling tool and its implications.- An exploration of lesser-known Unity settings that remain underutilized by many developers.
Additionally, we'll introduce our proprietary tool designed specifically for Unity optimization. We will also showcase CrazyGames' developer dashboard, our platform that enables developers to monitor and enhance the performance of their web-based games seamlessly. 
Join us to equip yourself with the latest strategies and tools to elevate your Unity web gaming projects.
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
26 min
Server Components: The Epic Tale of Rendering UX
Server components, introduced in React v18 end these shortcomings, enabling rendering React components fully on the server, into an intermediate abstraction format without needing to add to the JavaScript bundle. This talk aims to cover the following points:1. A fun story of how we needed CSR and how SSR started to take its place2. What are server components and what benefits did they bring like 0 javascript bundle size3. Demo of a simple app using client-side rendering, SSR, and server components and analyzing the performance gains and understanding when to use what4. My take on how rendering UI will change with this approach
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
21 min
DEADScript: The Role Of JavaScript In Web Sustainability
In the web performance circles, we tend to closely watch paint times, blocking times, and so many more metric times, which all contribute to analyzing the user experience. In 2023, we have begun to pay more attention to metric tonnes. DEADScript is a presentation highlighting the resources we’re loading in modern development, and JavaScript’s unique role in this disquieting environmental dilemma.
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
23 min
React Concurrency, Explained
React 18! Concurrent features! You might’ve already tried the new APIs like useTransition, or you might’ve just heard of them. But do you know how React 18 achieves the performance wins it brings with itself? In this talk, let’s peek under the hood of React 18’s performance features: - How React 18 lowers the time your page stays frozen (aka TBT) - What exactly happens in the main thread when you run useTransition() - What’s the catch with the improvements (there’s no free cake!), and why Vue.js and Preact straight refused to ship anything similar
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
32 min
Speeding Up Your React App With Less JavaScript
Too much JavaScript is getting you down? New frameworks promising no JavaScript look interesting, but you have an existing React application to maintain. What if Qwik React is your answer for faster applications startup and better user experience? Qwik React allows you to easily turn your React application into a collection of islands, which can be SSRed and delayed hydrated, and in some instances, hydration skipped altogether. And all of this in an incremental way without a rewrite.
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
31 min
Building a Web-App: The Easy Path and the Performant Path. Why Are They Not the Same?
We use frameworks to make building our applications easier. Yet as the application scales, its performance suffers. There is no one thing, but rather a death by thousand cuts. Developers are under pressure, and they often choose the easy and quick path to deliver a feature rather than the performant path. The performant path is usually more work. So let's look at these two paths and imagine a world where the performant path is the quick and easy path.
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
26 min
When Optimizations Backfire
Ever loaded a font from the Google Fonts CDN? Or added the loading=lazy attribute onto an image? These optimizations are recommended all over the web – but, sometimes, they make your app not faster but slower.
In this talk, Ivan will show when some common performance optimizations backfire – and what we need to do to avoid that.
Vue.js London 2023Vue.js London 2023
28 min
A Saga of Web Rendering Woes
This talk will look at the evolution of web rendering modes and what the Jamstack movement is all about. We will build a demo project to show how a static site generator and a Headless CMS can be combined to create dynamic and engaging stories while maintaining a static site's performance and scalability benefits.You will learn about the advantages and limitations of each rendering mode and gain a deeper understanding of how to use Jamstack to build powerful and dynamic storytelling experiences.
React Day Berlin 2022React Day Berlin 2022
25 min
Building High-Performing Cross-Cultural Teams
Everything we do, from the way in which we write our emails, to the method in which we provide negative feedback and evaluate performance, governs the performance of our teams. And understanding how culture impacts our efficacy as a team can drastically improve our day-to-day collaboration. In this session you'll learn: How different cultures communicate, How different cultures evaluate performance and give constructive criticism, How different cultures make decisions, How different cultures trust, How different cultures perceive time.
React Advanced Conference 2022React Advanced Conference 2022
25 min
A Guide to React Rendering Behavior
React is a library for "rendering" UI from components, but many users find themselves confused about how React rendering actually works. What do terms like "rendering", "reconciliation", "Fibers", and "committing" actually mean? When do renders happen? How does Context affect rendering, and how do libraries like Redux cause updates? In this talk, we'll clear up the confusion and provide a solid foundation for understanding when, why, and how React renders. We'll look at: - What "rendering" actually is - How React queues renders and the standard rendering behavior - How keys and component types are used in rendering - Techniques for optimizing render performance - How context usage affects rendering behavior| - How external libraries tie into React rendering
JSNation 2022JSNation 2022
21 min
The Future of Performance Tooling
Our understanding of performance & user-experience has heavily evolved over the years. Web Developer Tooling needs to similarly evolve to make sure it is user-centric, actionable and contextual where modern experiences are concerned. In this talk, Addy will walk you through Chrome and others have been thinking about this problem and what updates they've been making to performance tools to lower the friction for building great experiences on the web.
React Day Berlin 2023React Day Berlin 2023
13 min
Daily Brush for Website Speed: Embrace the Performance Budget Ritual
In this talk I will use the dental metaphor in order to introduce the performance budgets just like brushing teeth everyday to keep them clean and healthy you should do the same for your website by setting a performance budget and check it in every pull request in your pipelines, the target audience is mid-level to advanced, I will start by the example of the tooth decay and cleaning them then brushing them everyday as the dentist advice, then explain decay as the performance issue and performance budgeting is like the toothpaste and go from here with the different techniques that developers can do in order to prevent any loss in the performance wins they made.
React Day Berlin 2023React Day Berlin 2023
20 min
How Much RAM Is Your UseMemo Using? Let’s Profile It!
Memoize all the things!, is what most React guides will tell you, explaining how its memory cost is negligible compared to its performance benefits, but has anyone actually ever measured it? What about doing it in a complex React application with several thousands components? Turns out getting that answer is not simple at all, and requires delving into the complex world of Chrome Memory Profiling. This talk will explore the basics of heap profiling, moving on to more advanced tools and techniques for analysing memory usage in your React application, including how to profile it in your CI pipeline and answer your own optimisation questions by writing custom heap analyzers.
React Day Berlin 2023React Day Berlin 2023
8 min
Deconstructing Distributed Tracing
Distributed tracing is a powerful technique that allows you to track the flow and timing of requests as they navigate through a system. By linking operations and requests between multiple services, distributed tracing provides valuable insights into app performance and helps identify bottlenecks. In this talk Lazar will explain the concept of Distributed Tracing by walking you through how monitoring tools build tracing solutions.
TestJS Summit 2023TestJS Summit 2023
17 min
We've Rested Long Enough, What's Next?
Many developers are familiar with consuming/designing RESTful APIs, but what about building and consuming GraphQL and gRPC APIs? What about event-driven or asynchronous APIs? What are the benefits and technical limitations of each? Let’s go down the rabbit hole and explore some of these API types as alternatives to REST.
React Summit US 2023React Summit US 2023
9 min
Virtual DOM: Back in Block
The virtual DOM is generally regarded as a necessary evil, a performance tax that we have to pay for the convenience of declarative UIs.Until now.In this talk, we'll take a deep dive into what the block virtual DOM is (an new, innovative approach to VDOM), and how Million.js can help you improve the speed of your React applications. This talk will also provide a helpful overview of how the React virtual DOM works. By the end of this talk, you'll have the knowledge to not only start improving your React apps' performance with Million.js, but understand the underlying internals that make it so fast.
React Summit US 2023React Summit US 2023
22 min
Breaking the 'useEffect' Habit
Do you or a loved one suffer from the all to common practice of 'useEffect'? Have you re-rendered more times than you can count? Are you ready to revolutionize your React code?
Explore how to optimize performance, streamline your code, and reduce errors by challenging the conventional use of 'useEffect'.
Inspired by the React Docs themselves, this talk will guide you through common 'useEffect' scenarios, demonstrating powerful alternatives to enhance your codebase. Embrace simplicity and elevate your React development skills with us!
"You might not need an effect... Removing unnecessary Effects will make your code easier to follow, faster to run, and less error-prone."
Believe it or not, that intro is taken straight from the React Docs!
React Summit US 2023React Summit US 2023
8 min
Beyond First Load Speed with INP
In this talk, we will go on a journey in the future of the core web vitals potential member INP, which will help in improving the interactions in all interactions in the session's lifetime, not only the first input delay as in the FID, showing some case studies and a way to optimize your website for INP, you will go away with a bunch of recommendations to do immediately
React Summit US 2023React Summit US 2023
27 min
If You Aren’t First You’re Last
In this talk I will be covering various strategies and techniques that you can employ to make your apps fast and keep your apps fast. From tips and tricks around measuring performance, to architectural strategy and dirty rotten tricks.
React Summit US 2023React Summit US 2023
26 min
React Concurrency × Core Web Vitals
This talk comes with bad news. Google has launched a new metric – INP – which measures how fast page interactions are. This metric becomes a Core Web Vital in Mar 2024 – and pretty much every React app Ivan has seen so far has this metric way in red.
The good news is React 18 shipped new features that help to solve this – notably, useTransition() and Suspense. And in this talk, we’ll look at how exactly these features work, what they do, and how we can use them to make INP green.
React Summit US 2023React Summit US 2023
28 min
Rendering: To Sync or Not to Sync?
Let’s dive deep into React rendering and evaluate the implication of Concurrent Rendering and automated batching on code that previously relied on the synchronous nature of v17. Does it always make things better? With a real world case study, we evaluate useSyncExternalStore and flushSync as tools to restore synchronous rendering to avoid “visual tearing”. Working through the trade-offs of these approaches will give us new insights into React rendering and hints on how we can optimise our applications.
React Advanced Conference 2023React Advanced Conference 2023
21 min
Winning the Performance Race
Over the past two years, we’ve dramatically improved Wix Website performance, beating all of our competitors in Core Web Vitals. This project was a company-wide effort to finally solve the number one user complaint in the company – live site performance. 
In this talk, I will take a deep dive into the design changes that were implemented to achieve this significant improvement, and explain why and how those solutions could be applied in any web application to achieve similar results.
React Advanced Conference 2023React Advanced Conference 2023
7 min
Flashlight, a Lighthouse for Mobile Apps
The promise of Lighthouse is pretty cool, right? Visit any website, and with only a few clicks, you can get a performance score for it!Wouldn’t it be grand if we had the same thing for React Native apps? 
Well, you’re in luck! let me present our new open source tool called Flashlight 🔦 (cause you know, a Flashlight is basically a very small “mobile” lighthouse, right?)
React Advanced Conference 2023React Advanced Conference 2023
24 min
How to NOT use useEffect?
Are you using React in your project? If so, you must used useEffect! Actually, it’s essential for many use cases, but there are instances where it might not be the best solution, and avoiding it can improve your application's performance.
In this talk, we will learn from experience which is the missing piece of the puzzle to master useEffect. Taking a look at the incorrect cases and trying to improve their performance helps us to have a deeper understanding of it.
React Advanced Conference 2023React Advanced Conference 2023
15 min
Speeding Up Your React App With Less Javascript
Too much JavaScript is getting you down? New frameworks promising no JavaScript look interesting, but you have an existing React application to maintain. What if Qwik React is your answer for faster applications startup and better user experience? Qwik React allows you to easily turn your React application into a collection of islands, which can be SSRed and delayed hydrated, and in some instances, hydration skipped altogether. And all of this in an incremental way without a rewrite.
React Advanced Conference 2023React Advanced Conference 2023
28 min
Patterns for Performance
When working with React it is important that we use the right tool for the right job. If not we will be missing out on the best performance and developer experience. While optimising AG Grid React Table we discovered a number of patterns that made significant improvements to the tables performance.
React Advanced Conference 2023React Advanced Conference 2023
28 min
The Rocky Journey of Data Fetching Libraries in React’s New Streaming SSR
If you use the Next.js app directory, you might not even have noticed it, but you are not only using React Server Components, but you are also using the new streaming SSR feature of React.That means that on first page load, your Client Components will now be server-side rendered, suspense boundary by suspense boundary, and constantly streamed to the client, where they are rehydrated piece-by-piece.
If you combine that with suspense for data fetching in your client components, you will suddenly be facing hydration mismatches - as your client components will start fetching data on the server, but the data will not be transported to the client.
In this talk, I will go over the rocky journey that we had to go through to support suspense for data fetching in Streaming SSR with Apollo Client, looking at all the curious timing problems that come up with these technologies, and how we try to solve them as best as we can - always with the best possible user and developer experience in mind.
React Advanced Conference 2023React Advanced Conference 2023
35 min
Leveraging the Event Loop for Blazing-Fast Applications!
Some weeks ago I made my own implementation of signals, capable of updating 300k times the DOM in circa 600ms. Leveraging the Microtask Queue, I was able to bring that number down to 6ms, effectively improving performances by 100x. I wanna share how the Microtask Queue works and how you can leverage the Event Loop to improve performances.
JS GameDev Summit 2023JS GameDev Summit 2023
18 min
Why Is Building a Multiplayer Game So Hard and What Can We Do to Fix It for Everyone
Making casual games has become easier than ever but setting up multiplayer still requires you to write network code, deal with websockets, load-balancing servers, co-locating servers and whatnot. I am building Playroom to solve this, a high-performance sync that handles the networking and the room management so you can focus on building your game.
TypeScript Congress 2023TypeScript Congress 2023
34 min
TypeScript Performance: Going Beyond the Surface
Do you ever find yourself pondering how to identify and address performance issues in TypeScript to maximize the effectiveness of your code? If so, join us for a talk on the performance of TypeScript and the techniques you can use to get the most out of your code. We'll delve into various ways to debug performance, explore how to leverage the power of the TypeScript compiler to detect potential performance issues and use the profiling tools available to track down the underlying bottlenecks.
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
20 min
Improve Your Website's Speed and Efficiency with Partytown
Unleash the full potential of your website with Partytown! Say goodbye to sluggish pages and low Lighthouse scores caused by clunky third-party scripts. With Partytown, your main thread is dedicated solely to your code, freeing it up to run smoother, faster, and more efficiently than ever before. Empower your website with lightning-fast performance by moving all non-critical scripts to a web worker, where they’ll run seamlessly in the background. Get ready to blast off to the next level of web performance with Partytown!
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
9 min
Overcoming Performance Limitations in React Components for Low-end Devices
In this session, I will discuss our experiences in overcoming performance limitations while developing React components for web apps on low-end embedded devices such as Smart TVs. I will share actual application cases from the development of millions of webOS Smart TVs and show how we improved user input response and app launch time. The ideas and techniques shared will be beneficial to developers facing similar challenges.
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
21 min
HTTP/3 Performance for JS Developers
HTTP/3 is the hot new networking protocol, available today! While you get most of its benefits out-of-the-box, there are also quite some things you can and should do to get maximise performance.
In this talk, we look at optimizing JS payloads for the first network round trips, how browsers prioritize JS against other resource types, SPA vs MPA nuances, and how to optimally use the 0-RTT and 103 Early Hints features. We also look at the protocol's integration with fetch() and talk about the upcoming WebTransport!
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
28 min
Comparing JavaScript Frameworks Performance Using Real-World Data
Google collects performance information from all sessions on opted-in Chrome browsers into its Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) database. It then uses this information as a ranking factor for its search engine, but it also makes this information publicly available for everyone to view. I used this data to analyze and compare the performance of the leading JavaScript frameworks. In particular, I looked at the likelihood that websites built using each framework will have good Core Web Vitals (CWV) scores. Along the way I encountered several surprising results, and solved at least one mystery. See how your favorite framework ranks vs all the rest!
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
21 min
Optimising Images in Web and Native
It's safe to say that a lot of websites and apps these days are heavily reliant on images: product images, avatars, social sharing. With continued technological advances, the variety of device sizes you need to support keeps growing. How exactly are we to make the same page look great and feel performant on both a 16'' MacBook Pro with a retina display as well as a small 5 year old Android phone? We will look at some of the modern approaches to tackle just this problem on web and native - as well as what happens if you don't.
React Summit 2023React Summit 2023
29 min
Moving on From Runtime Css-In-Js at Scale
In this talk, Siddharth shares the challenges his team faced with optimising runtime css in js (styled-components) for performance. At GitHub, there are about 4000 React components that contain styles, Siddharth dives into the reasons for rethinking styling architecture, the challenges faced and lessons learned by migrating a big application.
JSNation 2023JSNation 2023
29 min
Top Core Web Vitals Recommendations for 2023
The Google Core Web Vitals team understand the amount of web performance recommendations is overwhelming and many don't know where to start. We've been working on identifying the 9 key recommendations (3 per Core Web Vital), which we think will have the most impact and which we recommend sites look at first. This talk will explain what they are, and why they are our top 2023 recommendations.
Vue.js London 2023Vue.js London 2023
29 min
You’re Probably Using Lighthouse Wrong: How We Got Tricked by a Single Magic Number
These days web performance is one of the most important things everyone wants to optimize on their apps, and it's clear to everyone how dramatic the impact of a poorly optimized website is on business. Yet we as an industry completely fail in recognizing its complexity and widely misuse the most common tool to measure it — Google Lighthouse. If you’re one of those people thinking that good performance equals a good Lighthouse score, you’ve also fallen into this trap and this talk is for you.
Vue.js London 2023Vue.js London 2023
31 min
Image Optimization - Quick Win for Improving Performance in Vue & Nuxt Apps
Improving Performance of Vue or Nuxt apps is not an easy task. However, there are some quick wins that you can implement easily that will drastically improve the performance of your website. One of such quick win is Image Optimization. In this talk, I will teach you how to optimize images on the fly with Digital Asset Managements services like Cloudinary or Content Management Systems, utilize the concept of Lazy Loading, use compressed format of images like WEBP, and many more!
Node Congress 2023Node Congress 2023
7 min
Measuring the Cost of a GraphQL Query with mercurius-explain
The development experience with GraphQL makes for a simple and immediate way to access data. Working on the backend means focusing on how and where the data is obtained from, whereas the frontend focuses on retrieving the data necessary for computation and display. This freedom of action, however, hides some possible performance problems. Fragments let you construct sets of fields, and then include them in queries where they’re needed. Often a client requests unnecessary data in an API call with the assumption that the extra fields are free. Instead, they are the cause of extra queries, sometimes even expensive ones. Not knowing the cost of a query makes it impossible to perform optimisation correctly.
Node Congress 2023Node Congress 2023
31 min
Things I learned while writing high-performance JavaScript applications
During the past months, I developed Lyra, an incredibly fast full-text search engine entirely written in TypeScript. It was surprising to me to see how it could compete with solutions written in Rust, Java, and Golang, all languages known for being typically "faster than JavaScript"... but is that even true? In this talk, I will share some lessons I learned while developing complex, performance-critical applications in JavaScript.
React Day Berlin 2022React Day Berlin 2022
22 min
Wait, React Is Multi-Threaded?
We already know, ""if some task takes time, promisify it!"". But some tasks can be computation heavy and can take time to complete, so making them async is of no use since those have to be anyway get picked. Solution? Simple, multithreading! Yeah I know that React and in turn javascript is single-threaded but what if I told you that our life was a lie ever since? Enter web workers! Key takeaways of the talk: 1. An example of a simple product search showing why async js or concurrent mode cannot work. 2. Demystifying web workers. 3. How they make this magic happen under the hood? 4. The Question of life - Aren't they same as concurrent mode? 5. Comparing the same Product list app using web workers, diving deep into the performance. 6. How one can easily misuse web workers and how to avoid it.
React Day Berlin 2022React Day Berlin 2022
10 min
Accelerate Innovation
Designers and developers work on different timelines—designers look to the future while developers build from what’s already been designed. They speak different languages and follow different processes. How can we bridge these gaps and build a more collaborative development process? This talk will showcase how design systems can improve communication between cross-functional teams—while boosting productivity and innovation.
Remix Conf Europe 2022Remix Conf Europe 2022
19 min
Remixing a Symfony
In late 2020, I ran a Lighthouse test on a simple content page on Harvie, our farm management platform and Symfony app, and received a performance score of 31/100. The JavaScript bundle, the API requests, the database lookups, even with minimal UI to render, had a baseline score in the thirties! Along with customer feedback, this helped to catalyze a renewed commitment to performance at Harvie. Through numerous discussions, we walked through each step of page load, from networking to rendering, and identified where we could improve. After a year of rewrites and upgrades, our remaining detriment to overall performance was our frontend. We had been converting our Symfony twig templates into React SPA components and fell into the common problem of creating "request waterfalls", while our user had to stare at a loading screen. We needed a change, and for us, that was Remix. In this talk, I'll walk you through our team's journey with performance and how Remix has become a natural progression of that.
TestJS Summit 2022TestJS Summit 2022
34 min
A Medley of Frontend and Backend Performance Testing
In this talk, I want to introduce you to both frontend and backend performance testing and why a medley of these testing activities are needed to make sure that your website is performant. I'll also give a quick walkthrough as to how tools such as xk6-browser can help with running both protocol-level (how performance testing is normally run through concurrent interactions at the protocol layer) and browser-level tests (testing with real browsers to provide a more realistic performance test).By the end of this talk, you should be equipped with new knowledge regarding frontend and backend performance testing which you can apply to your work projects.
React Advanced Conference 2022React Advanced Conference 2022
17 min
Zero Bundle Size Server Components
Server components is an exciting new feature introduced in React 18. It lets us leverage the fast performance of the server by offloading work behind a component to the server. Why would we want to do that? because server has direct access to data source .so fetching data, making aPI calls would be really fast on the server. The most amazing thing about RSC is that they add 0 kb to the client bundle. So not only RSC reduces the bundle-size but will also improve page load times, eventually providing better user experience. In this talk I will be talking about what react server components are, why do we need them . RSC is often confused with SSR but we will see how they are fundamentally different. We will create a small react application using server components and see the performance benefits. We will also see the challenges we might face when we use RSC in our normal react application. Finally we deep dive into React’s brain and see how things are happening under the hood.
React Advanced Conference 2022React Advanced Conference 2022
16 min
Ladle: The Story About Modules and Performance
The bigger they are, the slower it gets. I am talking about your applications and the bundling process. Fortunately, there might a be better future - the one without bundlers. This talk will be about JavaScript modules, Vite and how we built Ladle - a speedy tool for your React stories.
React Advanced Conference 2022React Advanced Conference 2022
21 min
Treat your users right with Segmented Rendering
If you think that static rendering is limited to generic and public content that is the same for every user of your website, this talk is for you. Segmented Rendering is a new pattern for the Jamstack that lets you personalize content, statically, without any sort of client-side rendering or per-request Server-Side Rendering. Get the best possible performances for use cases such as theming, internationalization, A/B testing, multi-tenancy, and start treating your users right!
React Advanced Conference 2022React Advanced Conference 2022
16 min
Automated Performance Regression Testing with Reassure
As developers we love to dive into performance metrics, benchmarks, compare one solution to another. Whether we enjoy it or not, we’re often required to fix performance issues in our React and React Native apps. But this process is not sustainable and prone to regressions, especially as the app and team grow. What’s worse, those issues are often discovered by your users, making their experience miserable. In my talk I’ll introduce you to Reassure—a performance regression testing library for React and React Native— which happens to be a missing piece in our automated testing and performance suites. Spotting problems before they hit production.
React Advanced Conference 2022React Advanced Conference 2022
9 min
Building full-stack applications on the Edge
Scaling and maintaining applications can be a pain, especially when thinking of how to build to get the user experience to a level that you are proud of. With all these shifting parts to consider, it is important to abstract parts of your applications to global reliable services. In this talk, we will discuss some of the services that Cloudflare provides, and the role they play in improving the overall developer and user experience.
React Summit 2022React Summit 2022
28 min
You don't want to Server-side Render your Next.js App
Next.js is a fantastic framework; it provides many unique features, helping you build any web application effortlessly. But when it comes to choosing the right rendering strategy for your pages, you may face a problem; how should I render them? Should I statically generate them at build time? Should I server-side render them at run-time? Well, the answer is surprising. server-side rendering is rarely the best option, and let's explore why (and how to solve this problem!)
JSNation 2022JSNation 2022
8 min
Performance is User Experience: Optimizing the Frontend for the Users
In most computer systems, definition of performance is straight forward enough: do more work per time with less resources. For a frontend web application, this is rarely the case. Frontend applications not only need to be resource-efficient, but must also ""feel"" efficient to the user. This makes performance on the frontend mostly a user experience issue.
Join me as we take a deep dive into the important performance metrics of a modern frontend app, how to measure them, and how to optimize them for both the machine and the user.
JSNation 2022JSNation 2022
30 min
High-Speed Web Applications: Beyond the Basics
Knowing how to run performance tests on your web application properly is one thing, and putting those metrics to good use is another. And both these aspects are crucial to the overall success of your performance optimization efforts. However, it can be quite an endeavor at times for it means you need to have a precise understanding of all the ins and outs of both performance data and performance tooling. This talk will shed light on how to overcome this challenge and walk you through the pitfalls and tricks of the trade of Chrome DevTools, providing you with a complete roadmap for performance analysis and optimization.
React Summit 2022React Summit 2022
23 min
Let’s Talk about Re-renders
React is a fantastic tool to implement complicated applications fast, we all know it. But are they going to be fast when implemented fast? Let’s talk about re-renders and their danger in react: how easy it is to make a mistake, why some small mistakes can have a huge downstream effect, and how to avoid and prevent them.This is a deep-dive type of talk, that focuses on why React components re-render, what kind of performance impact it can have, and what to do about it
React Summit 2022React Summit 2022
9 min
The Only Way to Eat an Elephant - Code Splitting With Server Side Rendering
Code splitting is a way to optimize the performance of our app by shipping less code to the end users. The most common form of code splitting is to use dynamic imports after a user interaction. In our case, we’re going to talk about conditionally loading only the parts of the application that we need during server side rendering. We’re going to discuss the problems and the solutions, so you could try it out in your own project.
JSNation 2022JSNation 2022
12 min
Engaging Ecommerce with the Visual Web
Experiences on the web have grown increasingly visual, from displaying product images to interactive NFTs, but not paying attention to how media is delivered can impact Core Web Vitals creating a bad UX with slow loading pages, hurting your store’s conversion and potentially losing sales.How can we effectively leverage media to showcase products creating engaging experiences for our store? We’ll talk about media’s role in ecomm and how we can take advantage of it while optimizing delivery.
JS GameDev Summit 2022JS GameDev Summit 2022
31 min
Conversion to Play: The Art of Loading
On the web, games are not pre-installed, but downloaded at the moment of play. Therefore the loading experience is a key part of your game’s success. During this talk Poki’s Kasper Mol will introduce you to the Conversion to Play concept, and what methods are available to nail this.
JS GameDev Summit 2022JS GameDev Summit 2022
10 min
Detect and Avoid Common Performance and Memory Issues in Unity WebGL Builds
This session explores common performance and memory issues that arise in WebGL builds produced using the Unity game engine. Examine how to identify, troubleshoot and avoid pitfalls that may lead to out-of-memory errors. Learn how to reduce game instability and improve game performance in WebGL builds.
Node Congress 2022Node Congress 2022
8 min
High Performance Node.js Powered by Rust and WebAssembly
In the post Moore’s Law era, due to limitations of the hardware, we need to squeeze more performance from the existing hardware. That means that the native code provides the best performance. However, the prevalence of native code on the server-side presents challenges to application safety and manageability. The rise and advent of Rust and WebAssembly offers new ways for developers to write high performance yet safe Node.js applications.
In this talk, I will cover the basics of Rust and WebAssembly, as well showcase how to go about their integration with Node.js. You will learn how and when to design a hybrid web application. How can you code the high performance functions in Rust in a Web Assembly virtual machine and finally how to tie everything together in a Node.js JavaScript application.
GraphQL Galaxy 2021GraphQL Galaxy 2021
8 min
Performance Monitoring of a Heterogeneous GraphQL Mesh App
Today it is fairly easy to integrate GraphQL on a client and server-side and get it all up and running quickly with any cloud service of your choice like e.g. Netlify or Vercel. With this setup, how can we monitor the performance, and how observe all parts together to find any root cause in case of problems?
GraphQL Galaxy 2021GraphQL Galaxy 2021
32 min
GraphQL Performance and Monitoring
GraphQL abstracts the downstream API calls from the frontend and all that frontend has to do is request fields in a query that are required for the rendering of the component. The frontend is not aware that a corresponding field might result in an API call or heavy computations on the backend side. This abstraction hits the performance when the GraphQL schema is not structured properly. Let's take an example to understand more:Here's the query to get available rooms for a hotel:hotel (id: $hotelId) { id rooms { id type name } }The frontend doesn't know that the rooms field inside the query hotel will fire another API call even type field would be fetched from another API endpoint. These nested API calls worsen the performance if there are more rooms. We can effectively solve this structuring the schema well and using data loaders.
TestJS Summit 2021TestJS Summit 2021
36 min
Effective Performance Testing to your Server with Autocannon
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Performance testing expertise that is developed for a long time. In order to measure your server performance you need a tool that can efficiently simulate a lot of abilities and give you good measurements according your analysing criteria.Autocannon NPM library gave me exactly that - that library is super easy to install and has a very simple API to work with. Within a really short amount of time you can start do performance testing to your application and get good measurements in development environment and in your performance labs, and generate complicated testing scenarios.In this talk I will introduce Autocannon, explain how to efficiently analyse your server performance with it, and show how it helped me to understand complicated performance issues in my Node.js servers. At the end of this lecture, developers will be able to have the ability to integrate a fast and easy tool in order to measure your server performance.
React Advanced Conference 2021React Advanced Conference 2021
27 min
Micro-Frontends Performance and Centralised Data Caching
Common myths about Micro-Frontends hold that they are bad for performance or that developers implementing this architectural style don’t care about the performance implications because they are focusing on fixing the developer experience and organizational issues rather than focusing on the user experience, however, the reality is altogether different. Micro-Frontends are not inheritably bad for performance and, as is often the case in software development, making best use of the technology depends on correct implementation. This talk will demonstrate how Micro-Frontends can make your applications faster and more resilient while keeping the benefits of independent deployments.
React Advanced Conference 2021React Advanced Conference 2021
27 min
Beyond Virtual Lists: How to Render 100K Items with 100s of Updates/sec in React
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There is generally a good understanding on how to render large (say, 100K items) datasets using virtual lists, …if they remain largely static. But what if new entries are being added or updated at a rate of hundreds per second? And what if the user should be able to filter and sort them freely? How can we stay responsive in such scenarios? In this talk we discuss how Flipper introduced map-reduce inspired FSRW transformations to handle such scenarios gracefully. By applying the techniques introduced in this talk Flipper frame rates increased at least 10-fold and we hope to open-source this approach soon.
Vue.js London Live 2021Vue.js London Live 2021
28 min
How to Measure Performance Effectively?
Most of the people in our industry know what Lighthouse or Page Speed Insights are and use them regularly. Unfortunately, most of them have no idea how they work which leads to terrible misconceptions and misunderstandings, especially for non-tech business owners. In this talk, I want to help everyone make better use of these tools explaining how they work, what's their goal, and how to interpret the data to come to the right conclusions.
GraphQL Galaxy 2020GraphQL Galaxy 2020
8 min
Going from Zero to Building Multi-Region GraphQL Applications
Off late GraphQL workloads see wide adoption in enterprise workloads as GraphQL provides a consistent and flexible way for UI to consume data from the APIs. For API developers like me, seeing GraphQL servers abstracting away the data filtering and the access patterns associated with backend APIs is a complete paradigm shift. Traditional API design tasks, like data modeling, access patterns required to implement high-performance Data APIs, are still relevant when implementing GraphQL applications?This talk will walk you through the learnings as a backend API developer building a hello world GraphQL application to implement a globally distributed GraphQL API for a real-world e-commerce application. We will look into scaling and resiliency required for building high-performance GraphQL APIs. Also, look into how database capabilities play an essential role in implementing a successful GraphQL application.
DevOps.js Conf 2021DevOps.js Conf 2021
8 min
JAM Stack Deployment Platforms and Performance Comparison
Our web app is finally ready to go live but which deployment tool should we use? With the rise of JAMstack, we have a multitude of options from Vercel, Netlify, to Firebase. Certainly, performance is key for us so we want to know which one is the fastest. In this talk, we will do a real-world benchmark comparing the most known JAMstack deployment options and discuss pros and cons.
DevOps.js Conf 2021DevOps.js Conf 2021
32 min
The Rise of the Dynamic Edge
Over the last few years, the JS web app community has seen a growing awareness and focus on performance & scalability. The days when prominent production sites serve entirely-blank pages waiting on monolithic bundles of megates of JavaScript are (mostly!) behind us.A big part of that has been deeper integration with CDNs, after all, round-trip latency is one of the primary determiners of performance for a global audience. But frameworks, and the companies that support them, have different approaches to how they can be used, and the operational complexities their strategies introduce have real consequences.But what if, instead of a dynamic origin sending instructions to a static CDN, you could run your application directly on the edge? As it turns out, that doesn't just improve performance, it also vastly simplifies our deployment and maintenance lives too.
Node Congress 2021Node Congress 2021
9 min
Nodejs Runtime Performance Tips
Nodejs runs big systems today. Sometimes, you can improve user experience and save on cloud expanses optimizing your nodejs scripts. In this talk I will share tips from production on how to improve nodejs runtime performance.
React Summit 2020React Summit 2020
21 min
Making Your React Apps Perform At Scale
As you add more components to your React application, you'll start to notice performance issues. Maybe data isn't loading as fast or you notice that things are happening out of order. There are tools and techniques you can use to handle these kind of issue at a large scale. In this talk, attendees will learn how to analyze their React apps for solvable issues and learn some state management and async handling techniques.
React Summit 2020React Summit 2020
35 min
Let the Main Thread Breathe!
The main thread, on the web, has a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, web apps are getting more sophisticated every day. Therefore, the main thread gets too busy that will disappoint our user showing janky frames! The off-main-thread architecture ensures apps run smoothly on every device for everyone.
In this talk, we will go through the possibilities in browsers such as WebWorker, Worklet, and WebAssembly introducing practical tools that allow us to boost our user experiences.