Best of Performance — May 2024
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freeCodeCamp·2y
How to Use React Developer Tools – Explained With Examples
Learn how to use React Developer Tools to inspect and debug React applications efficiently. Install the extension, navigate the interface, and explore component state and props. Debug errors and analyze performance using React DevTools.
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asayer·2y
Understand React Hooks with these Visual Guide Cheatsheets
Learn about React hooks through visual cheatsheets. Understand the core hooks like useState, useEffect, useReducer, useContext, useMemo, useCallback, and useRef. Also, explore additional hooks like useDeferredValue, useLayoutEffect, useDebugValue, and useId. Improve your React development with these powerful tools.
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DEV·2y
JavaScript is not the problem
A performance issue in an Angular 11 app was caused by a CSS rule, not JavaScript. The article discusses the use of JavaScript in web development and the importance of optimizing static assets and JavaScript bundles. It also addresses the role of Web Components and the Shadow DOM, concluding that excessive use of JavaScript is the problem, not JavaScript itself.
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ByteByteGo·2y
How Facebook served billions of requests per second Using Memcached
Learn how Facebook enhanced Memcached to build a distributed key-value store and scale it to serve billions of requests per second. Discover the challenges in scaling Memcached, including managing latency and failures within a cluster, reducing load on the database, and handling consistency across regions.
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Community Picks·2y
Next.JS CMS - Top choices in 2024
A post discussing the benefits of integrating a headless CMS with Next.js for improved performance, SEO, scalability, flexibility, security, and streamlined workflows. It provides a list of top Next.js CMS choices in 2024, along with their features and pricing details.
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LogRocket·2y
WinterJS vs. Bun: Comparing JavaScript runtimes
WinterJS and Bun are compared in terms of speed and features. WinterJS is a fast JavaScript runtime built in Rust, while Bun focuses on providing elegant APIs. They have differences in OS support, TypeScript support, and framework compatibility. WinterJS claims to be the fastest runtime, and Bun also emphasizes speed. WinterJS is compatible with major frontend frameworks and supports Cloudflare Workers API, while Bun has wider adoption but less compatibility with frameworks like Next.js and Remix. Performance tests show that Bun performs better in a simple HTTP request scenario.
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What we learned building our SaaS with Rust 🦀
This post explores the experiences of building a SaaS with Rust, highlighting the benefits, challenges, and the evolving ecosystem. It emphasizes the performance, safety, and concurrency advantages of Rust, discusses the learning curve, the maturity of the ecosystem, and the importance of documentation within the code.
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Baeldung·2y
Introduction to Java 22
Java 22 brings updates to the Java language, including unnamed variables and patterns, statements before super(), string templates, and implicitly declared classes and instance main methods. It also introduces new libraries such as the Foreign Function and Memory API, Class File API, Stream Gatherers, Structured Concurrency API, Scoped Values, Vector API, and updates to tooling, such as multi-file source programs. Additionally, there are performance enhancements in the G1 Garbage Collector with region pinning.
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What is Throttling in JavaScript? Explained with a Simple React Use Case
Learn about throttling in JavaScript, a technique used to limit the rate at which a function is called. Throttling can improve website performance by controlling the frequency of function execution. Implement throttling in JavaScript with a simple React use case.
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AppSignal·2y
What's New in Node.js 22
Node.js 22 offers a stable release with new features such as stabilized Watch mode, default-enabled WebSocket client, and a new --run flag for script execution. It also includes enhancements to loading ES Modules with require(), pattern matching in the fs module, AbortSignal performance, Stream highWaterMark, and an upgrade to V8 v12.4. Upgrading can be done through direct download or using a version management tool like Volta.
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A Deep Dive into Hooks in React 18
React 18 introduces powerful hooks that enhance development experiences and improve performance. These hooks include useTransition, useMutableSource, useDeferredValue, and useSyncExternalStore. They enable smooth transitions, integration with external data sources, deferred processing, and synchronization with external state management systems.
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DuckDB vs Polars — Which One Is Faster?
This post presents a benchmark comparing the performance of DuckDB and Polars, two data tools. Polars outperforms DuckDB in reading CSV files and executing window functions, while DuckDB is faster in join operations. The performance of both tools is similar overall.
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Telerik·2y
5 Reasons You Should Consider Using Next.js in 2024
Next.js provides a powerful combination of performance, developer experience, flexibility, and industry adoption, making it a compelling choice for web development in 2024. It offers performance optimizations, caching mechanisms, optimized image and font loading, static site generation (SSG), incremental adoption, customization options, various rendering modes, data fetching options, and flexible deployment choices.
