There is an abundance of poorly written react apps popping up everywhere. Go to netflix and search for movies... the experience is terrible. The search box lags typing by a long shot. So much so its almost impossible to type in the full text of a movie name. I'm sure there is the correct way to do this (not making the field a controlled component?) but the problem being there on such a major site is a sign that its hard to do react correctly.
I just went to netflix and it's not at all how you describe. It's incredibly fast and live filters as I type. There may be an abundance of poorly written react apps out there but netflix does not appear to be one.
maybe i'm just typing too fast. I tried "the best marigold" (for the best marigold hotel). I watched the i in marigold disappear from the search box. Deleting the string (by holding down the delete key, the X works just fine) takes forever as well. I'm using chrome if it matters.
Just tested it and didn't find it super bad, but I am honestly (negatively) surprised. It does indeed lag quite a bit and feels very unnatural. Chrome here as well. I use React quite a bit myself and haven't experienced this in my own apps. Odd!
There's also a slightly annoying flicker when you type the last bit and it keeps returning the same movies.
Something like that certainly plays it's role. I'm doing that as well for certain inputs and experience no lag at all, so it depends more on their implementation of the store. I think their search store is probably doing a lot more than mine (although, entering text, querying an API, processing response async). It seems like they could introduce some optimizations there.
