“But it turns out the only surefire way to make performant Web Stuff is also to just write less.”— Heydon Pickering, heydonworks.com
“The solution to caching GraphQL is to normalize the hierarchical response into a flat collection of records. Relay implements this cache as a map from IDs to records. Each record is a map from field names to field values. Records may also link to other records (allowing it to describe a cyclic graph…”— Facebook Engineering, facebook.github.io
“DOM recycling is a underutilized technique to keep the DOM node count low. The general idea is to use already created DOM elements that are off-screen instead of creating new ones. Admittedly, DOM nodes themselves are cheap, but they are not free, as each of them adds extra cost in memory, layout, s…”— Surma, developers.google.com
“For most of the web, poor network connectivity destroys the user experience. We can do better.”— Jake Archibald, youtube.com