gitlab’s code review interface is fucking awful, manages to slow down my entire computer for even a 5 file change, anything larger just makes things unusable.
is there some sort of alternative frontend i can use for this? i’ll even take an electron app if it performs at all better.
if there isn’t i might need to fuck around and write my own because it’s genuinely terrible
gitlab's code review interface is nice, and i've only seen it tank performance with very big diffs. ymmv, but maybe go test it out on their public instance?
we are using their public instance; i don't have the time or energy to self-host that. ime it performs very poorly on almost all diffs and also routinely just Doesn't Work (links and buttons don't do anything, two line diffs on individual files will fail to load, comments get dropped on save) and this is replicable across multiple browsers and OS's. unsure if our repo is fucked somehow (doubt it, it's not a big repo) or what but it's straight up unusable sometimes.
dang okay, sorry; i guess the private instance i use regularly is maybe comically overprovisioned. sorry, and good luck
guess i should clarify that the client performance is bad. backend performance is whatever (not great but also not that important) but the client frustrates me more since that has the ability impact other things
don’t worry, GitHub’s new preview PR review UI is pretty awful and slow too
I can't stand gitlab, there's a million buttons and sidebars and menus and it's just so overwhelming
also the file/diff viewer requires web workers to even load so boooooo
I've used VS Code's PR review view for GitHub before, and it looks like there's a similar GitLab extension?
I haven't used the GitLab one personally but it may be an option: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/01/25/mr-reviews-with-vs-code/
well, bitbucket fucked theirs up in the last year or so too, so I can't recommend that anymore. it used to be pretty nice in terms of being able to view commit-by-commit and file-by-file.
