ondrejbartas

React is the new Lego - how we deal with a lot of components

Lightning talk proposal for ReactiveConf 2016

At Blueberry, we've been frustrated with maintaining and getting oriented in our React components and their props. That's why we made a tool for automatically generating a component library from a project's components.

We named it BlueKit and released it as open-source.

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent