Comment by 100k
3 years ago
(I worked on the backend for this, not the frontend.)
Yes, the new code search and navigation experience is powered by React for the frontend. We decided to use that because we wanted to build a stateful, rich navigation experience.
If you want to try it, please sign up for our beta https://github.com/features/code-search (we have been clearing the waitlist daily.)
And yet, the two things I cared for as a user, are gone: scroll position no longer preserved on mobile devices, swiping back doesn’t work reliably.