reactjs - Old laptop and React Js

Question

My laptop is old, not just old deadly old. Fortunately, at least I can code Html, Css, Vanilla Js and Php and use local servers. Once I started React JS with nmp and started coding something. But my laptop sucked viewing it, was too hard for my machine, I couldn't continue. I love React, still wanna do development on it, but no opportunity, I'm super sad, dying inside. I am here with a little hope asking you all guys if there's any way that I can make this huge mass lighter for my dear laptop even though with some tricks. Maybe less file inclusion or doing it without nmp. I already made my sublime ready to code for React. The problem is that installing the React with nmp, and the browser start-up and refreshing takes too long. I googled and found that the one said a way of doing it is: there should be some .js and babel inclusions into main html file to make it React App if to work without nmp, but didn't work for me.

Pls if you know any way how to create React projects in easier way for old laptops, I love to hear that.!

By the way. My laptop spec is: Acer Aspire 5315, Win 8.1 Pro, 32-bit, 1 REM.

Thank you!

Answer 1

I've been struggling with simmilar problems before and here I leave you some things you can do:

• Delete the %temp% files.
• Disable the translucid effects.
• Setting your laptop power mode to max performance.
• Disabling the background apps.
• Disabling X-Box Game bar to record in the background.

(Maybe not all of this changes might not be abailable in windows 8.1 but if someone is having the same problem in windows 10, they might help)

As well, you can check videos like: "Ways to improve windows 10/8.1/7 performance", I leave you here one of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vv1kks4VM0

Summarizing, all this changes shoud free up some RAM and disk space in your laptop in order to speed up the loading times. Anyways I recommend you to get a new laptop, there are some that are quite good and cheap.