How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components
October 14, 2024
Microsoft’s Edge browser team is on a mission to swap out React UI components with native web platform components. We speak to the team lead.
Source: How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components – The New Stack
Alex Russell of the Edge team spoke at Web Directions Summit in 2023 on this topic broadly, and flagged some of the efforts that were underway on the Edge browser (and beyond–web technologies render the UI of several of Microsoft’s apps like Teams and Outlook).
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@conffab.com I'm actually surprised that they ended up with React for components of the Edge UI that literally only ever have to work in Edge. No wonder their performance was bad.