Ask HN: Resources for Front End JavaScript with Priority on Performance and Power Saving?
After doing some research in this field it looks like performance for most js library creators is not important, jquery is a good example - there are alternatives like velocity.js, but it looks like the mainstream developer still does not care about performance.
Also many charting libraries are catastrophic - even the "industry standard" ones are really bad on performance and power saving.
Maybe a reason for this is the lack for good performance oriented JS literature and resources, even in the most guru-ized books about JS there is not a lot to be found about performance and power saving, also I was not able to find these:
* a comprehensive performance and power saving oriented guide for JS frontend developers that teaches about best practices.
* a good tutorial on how to implement constant debugging for performance and power saving into your workflow (think of a "gulp perf-profile" task).
* a good collection of performance and power saving optimized frontend libraries - (an "awesome js performance and power saving" github repo would be a good start).
If you are in the know of the secret sources, please tell us, thanks!
Also any hint on this issue is welcome, thank you very much and have a nice day!
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[ 42.6 ms ] story [ 544 ms ] threadYou may want to read also some articles on perfplanet [2]
Blog of Grigorik is also intersting [3]
But as I said all those resources are about "web performance" rather than "JS performance" and are more high level overview about latencies, UX and not exactly on minimizing CPU cycles.
[1] http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545
[2] http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2015/
[3] https://www.igvita.com/
Good luck.