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Advanced React.js Performance

Performance is one of the reasons why React.js is so popular for building complex, highly interactive web applications. It became the go-to library for developers who don’t like to make compromises for technical reasons when building awesome user experiences. However even with React.js it still can be easy to hit it’s performance limits.

In this lightning talk Daniel will go beyond the basics of shouldComponentUpdate and immutable data structures and will discuss how to correctly instrument, measure and optimize performance in complex React apps. He will help you understand the overhead of different parts of the React component lifecycle, how some of it’

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##Moving from Angular to React

For over a year I had been helping to create a production app with Angular. I was initially hugely impressed by the advantages Angular offered and invested a lot of time learning the intricacies of the framework.

Having being initially cautious about React as one of the many upcoming frameworks that wouldn't stick around I was hesitant to make the switch. However, after making the jump I've been using React for a few months now and been thouroughly impressed.

This will be a short talking explaining:

• The shift in thinking when moving from Angular to React
• The difficulties when moving from Angular to React
• What we can learn from Angular and how having a previous knowledge of other frameworks can help significantly when creating React apps.