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They just hope that Google will keep pouring infinite money into making their JavaScript engine faster.

And they never kept track of their dependencies in the first place. That's the job of some build tool. Whatever it pulls in is fine.



What Google giveth, NPM taketh away.


We target IE11 with angular1.6, React and Vue and it all runs very fast. The only time we ever had trouble were lists over a few hundred items long that our internal customers didn’t want paginated. But delivering those more demanding apps in react and vue solves all our IE11 is slow problems. On any other brothers the code might as well be native.


> lists over a few hundred items long that our internal customers didn’t want paginated.

Does it not bother you that a machine that can do at least a billion computations in a second struggles with a list that short?


Only on IE11 and only in angular1.6. Vue and React it is lightning fast.


Wait why are you using all three of AngularJS, React, and Vue?


They probably have a giant AngularJS stack and wanted to slowly migrate to a new framework and they couldn't reach consensus on either React or Vue :D


We have one small piece written in React. It will be replaced when the Angular is finished being moved to Vue, and all new dev is in Vue. It’s a nearly 8 year old bundle of over 56 and counting HR apps and is a feather in our department’s cap for how much money it has saved.

I wanted to move to React initially but after adding a single new app my boss hated the syntax and we switched to Vue. Vue is good too.


Please view the source of this HN page. It has hundreds of elements and images, and renders instantly.


That would indeed be impressive, IE surely needs a ton of polyfills?


Lol yes it definitely does. But we still get to use all the syntactic sugar of es latest and IE11 stays very fast. We’re happy and so are our customers.




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