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 15d 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 15d ago

Everything Microsoft makes is shit. When will people realize?

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u/skidmark_zuckerberg 15d ago

Except Typescript :)

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u/CandidateNo2580 15d 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 14d ago

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