This article contains 4 images. You will find them at the very end of the article.

This article contains 431 words.

Web Directions Lazy Load '22 session spotlight–How to build 5x faster electron apps - Web Directions

Web Directions Lazy Load ’22 session spotlight–How to build 5x faster electron apps

John Allsopp

26th April, 2022

@johnallsopp

How to build 5x faster electron apps

Electron apps are on the rise — Figma, Notion, VSCode, you name it. These kinds of apps are often SPAs and are often slow and hard to scale. Here are 4 strategies I’ve used to make electron apps up to 5x faster.

Amila Welihinda

Making the web fast for everyone, everywhere, Amila is currently building a B2B SaaS company around web app performance monitoring and optimization.

Hist software is used by Google, Dropbox, PayPal, and many other companies, and he’s helped hundreds of developers and teams in open source.

In 2022 we have a whole series of events for Front End Developers

Across 2022 Web Directions is presenting our series of online conferences for front end designers and developers. Focussed deep dives, they go far beyond what you might expect from conference programs.

Learn more and register now

Priced individually from $195, or attend all 6, plus get access to our conference presentation platform Conffab for just $595, or $59 a month.

Great reading, every weekend.

We round up the best writing about the web and send it your way each Friday morning.

delivering year round learning for front end and full stack professionals

Learn more about us

Three days of talks, two of them in the engineering room. Web Directions you have broken my brain.

Cheryl Gledhill Product Manager, BlueChilli

Each year we have 6 unique online conferences for front end developers, plus Remixed, a free event that brings together some of the highlights from the previous year.

The best of 2021, remixed, and free!

Online, globallyJanuary 2022

Learn More

The conference CSS deserves

Online, globallyApril 2022

Learn More

a conference on front end performance

Online, globallyMay 2022

Learn More

a conference all about JavaScript

Online, globallyJuly 2022

Learn More

a conference on progressive web apps and web platform

Online, globallySept 2022

Learn More

accessibility engineering for front end developers

Online, globallyOctober 2022

Learn More

privacy, security, identity for front end developers

Online, globallyDecember 2022

Learn More