TC39 Import Proposal, Webpack 2, and the React Community in the East with Neehar Venugopal HD

In current times, Neehar’s primary focus as a software engineer is to provide a solution to developers that would help make building apps more efficient. He is one of the authors behind the import-proposal, which helps authors ship less code and emphasize the important ones to optimize performance (especially in mobile). Import proposal is available in Webpack 2 and is in stage 3 proposal of TC39, meaning it hasn’t made an appearance in browsers. However, individuals do agree that it works so it will be implemented very shortly. The commencement of import-proposal was inspired by talks about mobile for CSS and mobile for UI/UX. Seeing as mobile for javascript was yet to be discussed, but mobile app speed and performance needed to be improved, the topic finally began to surface. The question of “how can I send just the minimum amount of javascript required to show user what’s on the screen” emerged. Dynamic import was also introduced so lazy loading and code splitting could happen in webpack. Neehar also talks about the React community in the East. Although far away, developers in this area still feel very much included in the community due to the great involvement of all developers, diversity, and communication between team members. Something that could be improved however in the West, however, is greater focus in performance. Unlike VueJS, React is not as widely adopted because of the performance issues. You can find Neehar on Twitter at @neeharv.