Worth using something other than React?

[colin-grant-work]

Description

Most of the job of the Memory Inspector is rendering large lists of fairly uniform character. React isn't necessarily well suited to that task. We might achieve better performance and flexibility in managing our render cycles with a different DOM management strategy.

Additional information

[thegecko]

If it's mainly a table, perhaps there's a good component we could use to get sorting and paging for free?

[thegecko]

The choice here was to use the vscode-ui-toolkit which ensures web views look like VS Code. This uses react under the hood.

[colin-grant-work]

I think we can continue to use vscode-ui-toolkit even if we don't use React. It's actually twisting React a bit to integrate its own custom HTML elements, which are the core implementation of the VSCode-like UI elements, and I think we can also access those directly or through another wrapper.

[thegecko]

I'm happy to follow your lead in this area. The tabular data is very important and I'd be interested to see what alternatives we have.