Aleksandr Tkachenko

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Conf42: JavaScript 2025

Let Your Browser Take a Breather with a Scheduler.yield()

Modern web applications often overload the browser’s main thread, causing sluggish interfaces and poor responsiveness. This talk explores how JavaScript’s single-threaded execution model contributes to that problem, and how the new scheduler.yield() API offers a clean, effective way to give control back to the browser without breaking your code flow. We’ll walk through the limitations of...

Aleksandr Tkachenko

Playtech

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Conf42: JavaScript 2023

Skeleton Mammoth - or how I've been solving the problem of reusable Skeleton Loaders

After investigating the topic of skeleton loaders in details, I've decided to create by myself a very simple, flexible, reusable, customizable solution. In this speech, I will describe the process and approach of creating this solution and turning it into a library, as well as the difficulties.

Aleksandr Tkachenko

Playtech

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