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  • Rendering 12,000 Image Albums at Imgur

    Posted on September 14th, 2015 | Tags: jQuery, Optimizations, JavaScript, Imgur, React

    Today marks a great day for wallpaper enthusiasts everywhere. Today's the day a newly designed Imgur launches, and with it comes some great performance improvements. My favorite is our new way to load giant albums without ridiculous lag. To put this new algorithm to the test I'm going to compare the perceived load speed of this 12,000 image album to what was previously on the site.

    TL;DR

    • Utilized React.js more
    • Only render DOM elements that are in the viewport buffer zone
    • Saw FPS …

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