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Comment by jakub_jo

3 years ago

Not sure how I should feel about this. GitHub always felt snappy to me. It's a joy to use and I always admired their approach sending html over the wire. Let's see how this unfolds in the future.

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z9znz  3 years ago

I'm not a frontend guy, so maybe someone else here knows how to effectively benchmark the current system. I would be very curious to see how the current system performed versus a new React FE. Surely MS will do this themselves, but I don't know if they will publish it (especially if it shows the net result of the change was negative).

  • systemicdanna  3 years ago

    There is also a very big difference in dev experience/toolset and dev velocity between RoR templates and React. Large apps that use RoR or Django templates become very messy and unenjoyable to work with over time. Plus being able to reuse parts of the state on the client is a big productivity boost.

    For me personally API+front end is a much cleaner and productive paradigm than having to pass massive dictionaries from a controller to a template. This separation of concerns allows to focus on and optimize data sources/retrieval and UI/rendering independently. Really nice!