3 HN users recommended this talk3 months2018–2022score 3.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
Recommended as the clearest demo of what concurrent rendering solves, including the memorable clock animation.
Dan Abramov's JSConf Iceland talk on what came after React 16, with live-coded prototypes of async rendering and time slicing. It previews the ideas that became concurrent mode and suspense.
Dan Abramov's talk starts 39 minutes into the livestream: [link] If you like live coding demos, he also gave a talk at JSConf Iceland where he showed off some future React features, such as asynchronous rendering: [this video]
Live coding demo of future React features like asynchronous rendering
These apps all fall flat, which is the point i'm trying to make. They're robust from a design perspective, the tools we have to build UI are good enough, but they can't compete against native. Do you think that using Svelte in any those would make a difference? This is why React is attempting to find a solution. The problem is essentially the same. Native apps are also conflicted with load, they have better means than we have on the web to deal with it, but it's still low-level and complex to orchestrate, threading for instance. Any one of those means pushes your app into async issuee, race conditions that you need to reconcile. With concurrent mode scheduling is a first class concept , your components won't be subject to race conditions. React maintains 60fps, high-priority content (user input, animations, transitions) can be ran fluidly while lesser priority content gets deferred. It has a good chance of outperforming multithreaded native apps with that model. This demo illustrates the issue: [this video] which is universal. You run into this on native platforms as well as on the web.
Demo illustrating concurrent mode scheduling and prioritizing user input over lesser work.
Congratulations to the React team! I remember three years ago when Dan first showcased some of the concurrent features [1], so this has been quite long in the making. [1] [this video]
Early showcase of React concurrent features by Dan Abramov.
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