Off The Main Thread

In this episode, Surma talks about web apps that (partly) abandon the DOM and use canvas instead, to take rendering matters into their own hands. Figma is one popular app that uses this approach, while Flutter is an entire app platform that went with this technique to provide portability. Jake and Surma discuss the tradeoffs of building apps this way.

Resources:

• AI text-to-speech having a stroke
• ServiceWorker Static Routes
• Targeting the browser with Bevy
• Flutter’s “Showcase” section with a 6MB gif
• Flutter’s Material 3 Demo w/o Wasm
• Flutter’s Material 3 Demo w/ Wasm
• Ian 'Hixie' Hickson’s “Towards a modern Web stack” document
• HarfBuff