Comment by adzm

1 day ago

Well yeah but if you do actually need things like images, animations, high frequency updates, etc, this is actually a pretty good overview of how to approach it. Also learned that react uses posting to a MessageChannel to yield!

GP is right that just like with garbage where "reduce, reuse, recycle" is the mantra, the first question for optimizing something should be if you need to do the calculation at all.

  • This is true as well, yeah, but it came off as dismissive of everything too. Personally I prefer information dense interfaces with minimal chrome, but there really is a certain joy when you get to use a well designed and optimized fancy reactive, immersive interface