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Nadeem Ur-Rehman
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The Dark Side of Async: Why Your Promises Are Slower Than You Think

🚀 Just published a new deep-dive on Medium:
“The Dark Side of Async: Why Your Promises Are Slower Than You Think”

We often celebrate async/await for cleaner code, but in production it can secretly slow down dashboards, UIs, and even entire workflows.

In this piece, I uncover:
⚡ Why await isn’t always instant
⚡ The async loop trap devs fall into
⚡ How frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue amplify async costs
⚡ Hidden gems (like requestIdleCallback, batching, RxJS schedulers) to keep apps smooth

👉 If your app ever “feels laggy” despite being “correct,” this one’s for you.

đź“– Read here: https://medium.com/@nurrehman/the-dark-side-of-async-why-your-promises-are-slower-than-you-think-4df5f727e4bd

JavaScript #Angular #React #Vue #WebPerformance #AsyncProgramming #Frontend

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