Houssein Djirdeh works with the Developer Relations team at Google, educating React developers on web application performance.
He created the world best iPhone and Android app for Github — GitPoint.

Chantastic asks about his experience creating GitPoint (a fully featured GitHub client, built in React Native), what performance vernacular like tti, fcp, and Web Workers mean, and common performance pitfalls and misunderstandings found in React apps.

They discuss the importance of limiting scope to ship a product, the performance value of Hooks, tools and automations you can use today, and which projects to follow for inspiration.

Featuring

Houssein Djirdeh — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website

Links

Progressive React — How to build your React app so more people can use it
Developer Relations — Evangelize Google technologies and passionately advocate for developers' needs.
Houssein Djirdeh: Progressive React / React Boston 2018
GitPoint — GitHub in your pocket 📱
tti — Time to Interactive
fmp — First Meaningful Paint
fcp — First Contentful Paint
fid — First Input Delay
Web Worker
Service Worker
worker-dom — An in-progress (as in very-alpha) implementation of the DOM API intended to run within a Web Worker
Lighthouse — An open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages
lighthousebot — Run Lighthouse in CI, as a web service, using Docker. Pass/Fail GH pull requests
webpagetest.org — Run a free website speed test from multiple locations around the globe using real browsers (IE and Chrome) and at real consumer connection speeds
bundlesize — Keep your bundle size in check
web.dev — Get the web's modern capabilities on your own sites and apps with useful guidance and analysis from web.dev
Prototyping Lighthouse Stack Packs
developers.google.com — Build anything with Google

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