Strom 🌪️: web architecture changes to improve UI performance

[valerybugakov]

Goals

Come up with a new approach for defining web application pages that would yield better UI performance and significantly reduce the complexity of the React tree.

1. Improve the web application performance.
2. Reduce the complexity of the React tree.
3. Standardize the new approach for defining web application pages + data-loading functions.
4. Come up with an approach that would allow us to switch to SSR if we want to later.

Prefer committing to ideas that we can deliver incrementally and build on top of each other. That way, we can stop at any point with the deliverable MVP and consider extending the project to build more stuff.

Resources

• PR-FAQ Storm 🌪️-Radical changes to improve web UI performance
• Storm 🌪️ Ideas
• Project board
• Meeting notes

Tracked issues

@unassigned

• https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46476
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46826
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/48852

Completed

• (🏁 2023-01-23) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/37489
• (🏁 2023-03-02) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/47174

@philipp-spiess

Completed

• (🏁 2023-01-24) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46470 (PRs: #48262)
• (🏁 2023-01-24) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46469
• (🏁 2023-02-15) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47611
• (🏁 2023-02-21) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/33834 (PRs: #46903, #47014, #47022, #47175, #47176, #47189, #47223, #47276, #47365, #47451, #47452, #47467, #47471, #47506, #47507, #47508, #47533, #47534, #47535, #47595)
• (🏁 2023-02-21) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47833
• (🏁 2023-02-21) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47838
• (🏁 2023-02-21) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47965
• (🏁 2023-02-21) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47963
• (🏁 2023-02-22) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47977
• (🏁 2023-02-22) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47979
• (🏁 2023-02-22) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47834
• (🏁 2023-02-24) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48077
• (🏁 2023-02-28) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48125
• (🏁 2023-02-28) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48282
• (🏁 2023-02-28) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48286
• (🏁 2023-03-02) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48455
• (🏁 2023-03-06) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48449
• (🏁 2023-03-08) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48909
• (🏁 2023-03-14) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47904
• (🏁 2023-03-21) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46570

@sashaostrikov

Completed

• (🏁 2023-02-23) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47010
• (🏁 2023-02-27) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48266
• (🏁 2023-03-04) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48463
• (🏁 2023-04-03) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/48014 (PRs: #50228) 🧶

@valerybugakov

• https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46823

Completed

• (🏁 2023-01-24) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46470 (PRs: #48262)
• (🏁 2023-01-24) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46469
• (🏁 2023-01-24) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/46618
• (🏁 2023-01-26) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46471
• (🏁 2023-01-30) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/46909
• (🏁 2023-01-30) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47013
• (🏁 2023-01-31) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46974
• (🏁 2023-02-01) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47156
• (🏁 2023-02-02) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47250
• (🏁 2023-02-06) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47414
• (🏁 2023-02-07) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47413
• (🏁 2023-02-15) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47597
• (🏁 2023-02-15) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47650
• (🏁 2023-02-17) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46474
• (🏁 2023-02-21) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/33834 (PRs: #46903, #47014, #47022, #47175, #47176, #47189, #47223, #47276, #47365, #47451, #47452, #47467, #47471, #47506, #47507, #47508, #47533, #47534, #47535, #47595)
• (🏁 2023-02-24) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48172
• (🏁 2023-02-27) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47888
• (🏁 2023-02-28) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48175
• (🏁 2023-03-02) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46825 (PRs: #46912)
• (🏁 2023-03-02) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46473
• (🏁 2023-03-02) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/46472
• (🏁 2023-03-02) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48535
• (🏁 2023-03-07) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48706
• (🏁 2023-03-07) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48698
• (🏁 2023-03-08) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/48886
• (🏁 2023-03-13) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/49184

@vovakulikov

Completed

• (🏁 2023-02-22) https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/47864

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• 🙆 Stretch goal