Once we were over the infamous Haskell learning-curve, we began looking for functional programming, immutability, and types everywhere! Given that one-third of our code runs in the browser (via Angular v1 — for now!), it is only a matter of time before we make the switch to typed-FP for front-end development as well.
React is slow - just like other frontend frameworks. But if you care about performance, it's fairly easy to make any React application super fast. Here is how.
React is usually pretty fast, but it’s easy to make small mistakes that lead to performance issues. Slow component mounts, deep component trees, and unnecessary render cycles can quickly add up to an…
Writing inefficient React components can cause them to rerender too often. Peter Bengtsson looks at ways of creating and optimizing stateless components.
Rendering a list of some elements in a page is a common task for almost any web-app. In this post I would like to show how to improve performance for that case. For a test example we will create app…
Service workers are at the core of Progressive Web Apps. They allow caching of resources and push notifications, which are two of the main distinguishing features that have set native apps apart up…
gpu.js is a GPGPU(General purpose Programming on Graphical Processing Units) library that lets you hand over hefty calculations to the GPU for super fast operation and output. It currently runs on the browser and node.js, wherein it is using WebGl API’s in the browser, and a single threaded operation on node.js. OpenCL is on the roadmap.
Lately I’ve been asked a lot about how I would implement a debounce function as an exercise, and I wondered why this question has become prevalent in the front-end engineering world. The more I was…
It’s quite common to divide our program into chunks using functions which we can call later to perform some useful action. Sometimes, a function can become expensive to call multiple times (say, a…
Thanks to mobile device and network proliferation, more people are using the web than ever before. As this user base grows, performance is more important than ever. In this article, find out why performance matters, and learn what you can do to make the web faster for everyone.
As we build sites more heavily reliant on JavaScript, we sometimes pay for what we send down in ways that we can’t always easily see. In this post, I’ll cover why a little discipline can help if…
As web developers, we know how easy it is to end up with web page bloat. But loading a webpage is much more than shipping bytes down the wire. Once the browser has downloaded our page’s scripts it…
We have extended our previous benchmarks to include other popular DOM manipulation libraries: Angular 1 and 2, Mithril.js, cito.js and the standalone independent implementation of React's Virtual DOM algorithm. We have also added more metrics (including memory use).
Let’s face it, if you’re a web developer, you deal with APIs. Whether you write your own or use someone else’s, it’s just part of the job. REST APIs in particular are very common place. Unfortunately…
meta description: Making a deep convolutional neural network smaller and faster.
A user-friendly explanation how to compress CNN models - by removing full filters filters from a layer (GPU friendly, unlike sparse layers). L1-norm used for picking candidates for removal. Optimized MobileNet by 25%.
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