Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Microsoft Edge: Web Components instead of React

 How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components - The New Stack

Microsoft's Edge browser team is on a mission to swap out React UI components with native web platform components.

When Microsoft’s Edge browser team released WebUI 2.0 in May, a project that aimed to replace React components with native web components, its primary goal was to make Edge faster for end users. The core idea was that adopting a “markup-first architecture” would reduce JavaScript reliance in its product, which would mean less code to process on the client side — hence a better experience for the user.

“And so what we did is we started looking at, internally, all of the places where we’re using web technology — so all of our internal web UIs — and realized that they were just really unacceptably slow.”

Why were they slow? The answer: React.


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