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@paulirish
paulirish / what-forces-layout.md
Last active May 16, 2025 01:11
What forces layout/reflow. The comprehensive list.

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics
  • elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent
@gaearon
gaearon / ReduxMicroBoilerplate.js
Last active March 26, 2020 00:35
Super minimal React + Redux app
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { createStore, combineReducers, applyMiddleware, bindActionCreators } from 'redux';
import { provide, connect } from 'react-redux';
import thunk from 'redux-thunk';
const AVAILABLE_SUBREDDITS = ['apple', 'pics'];
// ------------
// reducers
// ------------
@jquense
jquense / app.js
Last active August 29, 2015 14:26
implementation of redux's combineReducers adding flux waitFor()
import { createStore } from 'redux';
import combineReducers from './combineReducers';
let Store = createStore(combineReducers({
reducerA(state = 0, action, waitFor){
if ( action.type === 'TEST'){
waitState = waitFor(waitFor.reducerB)
if ( waitState.reducerB === 5 )
state = 10
@brycebaril
brycebaril / output.md
Last active February 23, 2020 22:35
process.nextTick vs setImmediate

@mafintosh asks: "Does anyone have a good code example of when to use setImmediate instead of nextTick?"

https://twitter.com/mafintosh/status/624590818125352960

The answer is "generally anywhere outside of core".

process.nextTick is barely asynchronous. Flow-wise it is asynchronous, but it will trigger before any other asynchronous events can (timers, io, etc.) and thus can starve the event loop.

In this script I show a starved event loop where I just synchronously block, use nextTick and setImmediate

import React from 'react'
import assign from 'object-assign'
var styles = {}
class Autocomplete extends React.Component {
static propTypes = {
initialValue: React.PropTypes.any,
onChange: React.PropTypes.func,
// with static data, do filtering and sorting in the client
<Autocomplete
initialValue="Ma"
items={getUnitedStates()}
getItemValue={(item) => item.name}
shouldItemRender={(item, value) => (
state.name.toLowerCase().indexOf(value.toLowerCase()) !== -1 ||
state.abbr.toLowerCase().indexOf(value.toLowerCase()) !== -1
)}
sortItems={(a, b, value) => (
// https://gist.github.com/joonaspaakko/ace1ec3455b6959dc611
#target photoshop
// If there are any documents open, run the code...
// =================================================
if ( app.documents.length > 0 ) {
// Used later on when the layers are duplicated back to the original document.
// ===========================================================================

Folder Structure

Please note

While this gist has been shared and followed for years, I regret not giving more background. It was originally a gist for the engineering org I was in, not a "general suggestion" for any React app.

Typically I avoid folders altogether. Heck, I even avoid new files. If I can build an app with one 2000 line file I will. New files and folders are a pain.

# Hello, and welcome to makefile basics.
#
# You will learn why `make` is so great, and why, despite its "weird" syntax,
# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
#
# Once you're done here, go to
# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
# to learn SOOOO much more.
function makeStyle(defaults, tagName) {
tagName = tagName || 'div';
var Style = React.createClass({
getDefaultProps: function() {
return assign({}, defaults);
},
render: function() {
var style = assign({}, this.props);
delete style.children;