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Dan Abramov: Beyond React 16 | JSConf Iceland

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Overview

Dan Abramov's JSConf Iceland talk on what came after React 16, with live-coded prototypes of async rendering and time slicing. It previews the ideas that became concurrent mode and suspense.

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Recommended as the clearest demo of what concurrent rendering solves, including the memorable clock animation.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2022

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throwaway_bad · 2019-10 · Strong recommendation

The clearest demo that communicates what this solves was given when it was announced last year. That clock animation is pure genius: [VIDEO]

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mlsarecmg · 2019-11 · Recommendation

Yes, but it scales with the environment and device capabilities. Watch this, it explains it in detail: [VIDEO]

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ggreer · 2018-10 · Recommendation

Dan Abramov's talk starts 39 minutes into the livestream: [LINK] If you like live coding demos, he also gave a talk at JSConf Iceland where he showed off some future React features, such as asynchronous rendering: [VIDEO]

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