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Your landing page fetches data from 20+ APIs. The user expects it to load in 2 seconds. Most frontend engineers would reach for Promise.all and call it a day. That approach is wrong and I wrote 4,000 words explaining why. (It's a very very deep dive and solution oriented) HTTP 103 Early Hints. The RSC Flight Protocol. WHATWG Streams with backpressure. Transferable ReadableStreams piped through Web Workers. Origin Private File System. scheduler.yield(). Speculation Rules API. These are all shipping browser capabilities. Today. Right now. Most of us have never used them. I wrote a deep-dive system design on how to architect a frontend that fetches massive data from N sources and still paints meaningful content in under 500ms. No bullet-point listicle. Just the actual engineering. check the link in the comment! #React #Javascript #Frontend #SystemDesign

🚀 Day 43/100 — #100DaysOfCode Today I focused on two powerful modern web development concepts: Lazy Loading and Server Actions. 🔹 Lazy Loading Lazy loading is a technique where components, images, or resources are loaded only when they are needed instead of loading everything at once. 📌 Benefits: - Faster initial page load - Better performance - Reduced bundle size - Improved user experience 📌 Common use cases: - Large components - Routes/pages - Images below the fold - Heavy third-party libraries 🔹 Code Splitting Lazy loading often works with code splitting, where JavaScript is divided into smaller chunks and loaded on demand. This helps applications stay fast as they grow larger. 🔹 Server Actions Server Actions allow running functions directly on the server, especially for handling form submissions and data mutations. Instead of creating separate API routes, actions can be called directly from components. 📌 Common use cases: - Creating new records - Updating data - Deleting items - Processing forms securely 🔹 Why It Matters - Lazy Loading improves frontend performance - Server Actions simplify backend logic inside modern frameworks like Next.js Together, they help build applications that are both fast and developer-friendly. 43 days down, 57 more to go. #Day43 #100DaysOfCode #NextJS #ReactJS #WebDevelopment #FrontendDevelopment

Just spent the day today debugging intricate state management and async routing on my latest project, Klite (a modern B2B hyperlocal marketplace). I needed to run a real-time negotiation simulation alongside a dynamic HTML5 Canvas map without bottlenecking the UI. The fix? Re-architecting the global state object to handle memory payloads cleanly before dynamically repainting the DOM. This entire debugging session reinforced a highly controversial opinion for me: We are vastly overusing heavy frontend frameworks. For Klite, I intentionally chose a "zero-bloat architecture": pure Vanilla JS and custom CSS. No React, no Vue. Why? To bypass the massive overhead of virtual-DOM reconciliation. When you need raw, algorithmic rendering speed, diving straight into native DOM manipulation gives you unmatched control and performance. Frameworks are great for massive teams, but for lean, high-speed Single Page Applications? Native browser APIs usually have exactly what you need. Are we too quick to rely on default frontend libraries? #WebDevelopment #VanillaJS #Frontend #Performance #SoftwareEngineering #Debugging #Controversial

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝟏𝟓𝐦𝐛 𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞:   We’ve spent the last decade making web development more "powerful," but we’ve accidentally made it 10x more complex. We're over-engineering ourselves into a corner.   The 2026 Web Stack Reality:   • Hydration is a heavy tax: Is your site interactive, or just a document?  • Server Components are a tool, not a religion: Use them where they make sense.  • Shipping Less JS > Adding more RAM: Optimization starts at the architecture level.   𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲: The most senior developers I know are currently deleting code, not adding it. They are choosing "boring" tech that scales over "shiny" tech that breaks.   Let’s get back to basics: Semantic HTML, lean CSS, and JavaScript only where it’s actually required.   The web should be fast by default, not by effort. What are your thoughts on this do comment below!   #WebDev #Javascript #React #NextJS #CodingLife #WebPerformance

Most React performance issues don’t come from heavy components. They come from Context API used the wrong way. Many developers create one large context like this: User + Theme + Settings + Permissions + Notifications Looks clean. Feels scalable. But every time one value changes, all consuming components re-render. Even components that don’t use the updated value. That means: Theme changed → User components re-render User updated → Settings components re-render This creates silent performance problems in large applications. Why? Because React checks the Provider value by reference, not by which field changed. New object reference = Re-render. How to fix it: ✔ Split contexts by concern ✔ Use useMemo() for provider values ✔ Use useCallback() for functions ✔ Use selector patterns for larger applications Context API is powerful, but bad context design creates expensive re-renders. Good performance starts with good state architecture. Don’t just use Context. Use it wisely. #ReactJS #ContextAPI #JavaScript #FrontendDevelopment #PerformanceOptimization #WebDevelopment #ReactDeveloper #SoftwareEngineering

https://lnkd.in/dwVyw_2B Provides a WebAssembly-based Basis Universal texture transcoder with TypeScript bindings, designed for high-performance texture transcoding in web applications #basis #texturetranscoding #webassembly

A learning from working with Next.js: Not everything needs to be a Client Component. Sending less JavaScript to the browser improves: • performance • load time • user experience Server Components help shift logic away from the client. Modern frontend is about doing less on the client. Are you using Server Components yet? #nextjs #WebPerformance #FrontendDevelopment

𝐄𝐱𝐭 𝐉𝐒 𝟖.𝟎 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 — 𝐢𝐧 𝟓 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬. We focused this release on three things enterprise teams consistently struggle with: ✔ Workflow components that previously required external libraries ✔ Performance at scale for wide, data-heavy grids ✔ Accessibility that works with screen readers out of the box Swipe through to see what's new. Want to test it yourself? The Kitchen Sink example suite has everything running live. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gPvraXH6 #ExtJS8 #JavaScript #FrontendEngineering #EnterpriseApps #WebDevelopment

25 frontend performance mistakes: 1. Shipping unnecessary JavaScript. 2. Not using code splitting. 3. Large bundle sizes ignored. 4. No lazy loading for images. 5. Blocking main thread with heavy logic. 6. Too many re-renders. 7. Unoptimized list rendering. 8. No memoization where needed. 9. Fetching unnecessary data. 10. Ignoring caching strategies. 11. Large uncompressed images. 12. No CDN usage. 13. Overusing third-party libraries. 14. Inefficient event listeners. 15. Ignoring Web Vitals. 16. No SSR or pre-rendering where needed. 17. Hydrating too much on load. 18. Poor state management causing updates everywhere. 19. Not using virtualization for large lists. 20. Recomputing expensive values repeatedly. 21. No debounce or throttle on inputs. 22. Heavy animations affecting performance. 23. Not minimizing network requests. 24. Ignoring mobile performance. 25. Not measuring performance at all. [what's more comment down]

Hot take: Web performance optimization — Core Web Vitals strategies that work is changing faster than most teams can adapt. Here's what I've seen work in production: 1. Start small — prototype with the simplest approach first 2. Measure before optimizing — gut feelings are usually wrong 3. Invest in developer experience — fast feedback loops compound The teams that ship fastest aren't using the newest tools. They're using the right tools for their specific constraints. What's your experience been? Drop a comment below. #WebDevelopment #TypeScript #Frontend #JavaScript