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Optimize Performance for React

React is known for its excellent performance characteristics, but you still need to be aware of common performance pitfalls and how to deal with it. This course will help you to get your React apps to be fast and efficient.

Intermediate
56m
(157)

Created by Hendrik Swanepoel

Last Updated Jun 26, 2024

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Optimize Performance for React

React is known for its excellent performance characteristics, but you still need to be aware of common performance pitfalls and how to deal with it. This course will help you to get your React apps to be fast and efficient.

Intermediate
56m
(157)

Created by Hendrik Swanepoel

Last Updated Jun 26, 2024

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React app performance can suffer due to components rendering too often. It's also common for React app bundles to end up too large and take too long to download. In this course, Optimize Performance for React, you’ll learn how to identify and address common React performance issues. First, you’ll explore how to analyze and fix wasted renders on both class and functional components. Next, you’ll see how to cache expensive operation results. Finally, you’ll learn how to reduce your app bundle size using production builds and lazy component loading. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of React performance needed to ensure that your React apps download and execute as fast as possible.

Optimize Performance for React
Intermediate
56m
(157)
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Hendrik Swanepoel - Pluralsight course - Optimize Performance for React
Hendrik Swanepoel
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In his day job Hendrik is a full stack coder from Cape Town. For a large part of his career he worked with .NET, but the last few years he spent most of his time with JavaScript.

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