In the past 20 years, the web has evolved dramatically from static documents with a few styles and images to complex, dynamic applications. However, one thing has remained largely unchanged: we have just one thread per browser tab (with some exceptions) to do the work of rendering our sites and running our JavaScript. As a result, the main thread has become incredibly overworked. And as web apps g
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