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Nov 22, 2022 · Frontend Development
React Scheduler: Implementing Idle‑Time Execution and Time Slicing with requestAnimationFrame, postMessage and MessageChannel
This article explains how React simulates requestIdleCallback by combining requestAnimationFrame, postMessage, and MessageChannel to execute work during browser idle periods, detailing the evolution from the early rAF‑postMessage approach in v16 to the message‑loop implementation in v18 and providing simplified source code examples.
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