I made a tool that makes React faster automatically
In brief: I'm Aiden, 18, and have spent the past 2 years of high school working on Million.js, an open source React alternative with 11K stars on GitHub and hundreds of thousands of npm downloads. Recently, I released automatic mode, which detects slow React components and automatically optimizes the reconciliation phase. It's still in beta but chugging along. It's around 70% faster than React on the JS Framework Benchmark and you can see how I did it here: https://million.dev/blog/virtual-dom Interested? Check it out here: https://million.dev
I made a tool that makes React faster automatically launched on August 11, 2023 with 15 votes, #1,576 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Million.js is an open source React alternative that automatically optimizes slow components to improve performance. It includes an automatic mode that detects performance bottlenecks and optimizes the reconciliation phase without requiring manual intervention. The tool is designed for developers building React applications who want faster performance with minimal code changes. It is currently in beta and has accumulated significant usage through npm downloads.
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