Supper Club × Make React 70% Faster! Million.js with 18 Year Old Aiden Bai

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Aiden Bai about his work on Million.js that aims to make React a lot faster. How does Million.js make React faster? And most importantly: has Aiden ever used a VCR? Show Notes 00:35 Welcome 00:57 Introducing Aiden Bai Aiden Bai aidenybai on GitHub @aidenybai on Twitter Aiden Bai on YouTube Million.js 01:57 What is Million.js? 03:20 How does React do rendering now? 04:31 How does Million.js make it faster? 07:37 What goes into creating a compiler? 08:24 How do you go from learning JavaScript to writing compilers? 11:05 Wyze WebRTC stream work 13:13 What are you using to benchmark and test? solidjs.com js-framework-benchmark xkcd: Compiling 18:19 What does a slowly rendering site look like? 23:54 How do you handle find on page with large amounts of code? 25:32 What does 70% faster with Million.js mean? Hyper™ Warp: Your terminal, reimagined 26:44 Why are maps slow? Supper Club × WASM, Fastly Edge, and Polyfill.io with Jake Champion — Syntax Podcast 643 28:19 Benefits of the Macro API 31:12 Does Million.js work across the board? 33:03 Does it ever break projects? How do you test Million.js? 35:35 How do you keep up on your GitHub issues? 37:40 What other areas of tech are you interested in working on? partytown 39:32 What was the inspiration for your website? 43:52 Supper Club questions Gruvbox with Material Palette iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Barbie (2023) directed by Greta Gerwig • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) directed by Jeff Rowe • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd Shameless Plugs Million Kitchen Sink Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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0:00.0	I sure hope you're hungry who I'm starving wash those hands pull up a chair and secure that feedback
0:08.0	Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and Wes Boss attempt to use human language to converse with and pick the brains of other developers
0:16.5	I thought there was going to be food so buckle up and grab that a
0:21.1	Handle because this was going to get why I'd sold
0:25.8	This is the syntax supper club
0:30.0	You
0:38.0	Welcome to syntax the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there today
0:43.0	We've got Aiden by on today who is claiming to make react 70% faster just by wrapping your components in a function
0:53.2	So pretty excited to talk to Aiden about that in
0:57.2	Whatever else goes on with today. Maybe I'll talk a little bit about his JavaScript journey
1:02.3	I think he's a pretty young guy. So I'm curious about how we got into it and all that. So welcome Aiden
1:07.4	Hey, it's so happy to be on so yeah a couple I think last week
1:12.9	It just started popping off on Twitter where you I don't think you released it because I looked into it million JS has been around for
1:21.5	A couple of years now, but it seems like last week. I don't know if you release something big or whatever
1:27.0	But everyone was talking about this million JS which will
1:31.4	Make react 70% faster. I'll let you actually explain what it is. Did you release something last week?
1:37.8	Yeah, last week released automatic mode
1:40.2	So originally we had like one or two primitive APIs. You could use the rapid components
1:45.8	But with automatic mode, it kind of automatically does that for you and so
1:50.9	A lot of what a lot of people were excited about was basically a drop in like enhancement for react awesome
1:57.1	So let's give us a quick rundown of what it is and then we'll get into the nitty gritty
2:05.3	Yeah, so fundamentally
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