SMRTR ProgrammingJun 4, 2026Daily.dev

Stop Blaming React: The Real Performance Problems in Your UI

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React rarely causes the performance problems developers blame it for — the real culprits are poor architecture, unnecessary renders, and bloated bundles. Colocating state, splitting large contexts, virtualizing long lists, and leveraging concurrent features like useDeferredValue consistently produce the biggest wins. Memoization tools like useMemo are often misapplied, treating symptoms instead of root causes.

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