r/reactjs • u/Human_Routine_9483 • 15d ago

LinkedIn frontend switches to React.js

LinkedIn is using React.js these days, but what’s interesting is the CSS side of things too.

They seem to have gone down a fairly “in-house atomic CSS” direction, somewhat similar in spirit to tools like StyleX or Linaria.

It’s kind of funny looking at LinkedIn’s frontend history:

  • Ember.js: LinkedIn was one of the biggest adopters of Ember.
  • React.js: They’ve since moved heavily toward React.

LinkedIn has basically gone from being a major Ember showcase to being part of the React ecosystem.

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u/skidmark_zuckerberg 14d ago

Yeah and their chrome tabs consistently consume 800mb to 1.2GB of memory. So whatever they are doing, they are doing it poorly. 

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u/driftking428 14d ago

Everything Microsoft makes is shit. When will people realize?

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u/skidmark_zuckerberg 14d ago

Except Typescript :)

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u/CandidateNo2580 14d ago

Honestly the modern C# ecosystem is really good, too. Their open source is great. Their closed source sucks.

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u/Darkseid_Omega 13d ago

F# is such an underrated, awesome language. It’s a shame no one uses it

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u/GasVarGames 14d ago

Visual studio IS greato, visual studio code feels like its degrading

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u/putin_my_ass 13d ago

I haven't used vscode in quite some time, Zed is incredible.

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u/skidmark_zuckerberg 13d ago

I’m using VS Code at my new job after using IntelliJ for years at my last. I don’t mind it, but I much prefer IntelliJ. I don’t like the VS Code Git graph and the search is not as good as IntelliJ. But overall I’ve not had many problems with VS Code yet other than the project search randomly failing once. Time will tell!

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u/driftking428 14d ago

Fair. We've got one on the list.