Improving load time of a Production React App

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This talk by Kanav Arora will draw on our learnings from the efforts that we undertook earlier this year to improve Urban Company’s website performance, resulting in a 60% reduction in load time.

All the efforts towards performance engineering can be bucketed in roughly two areas:

• ship less assets and
• tweaking order of delivery of assets.

The talk will primarily focus on the former with key emphasis on how to really optimize bundling via webpack. All of this was done in the context of a large production app with constraints on product, business and user experience.

This talk is also accompanied with a blog post: Improving first time load of a Production React App

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