Google launches $200,000 fund to sponsor third-party JavaScript frameworks

At the first two days of the Chrome Dev Summit 2018 conference, Google announced that it would launch a $200,000 fund to encourage third-party JavaScript frameworks to develop and implement performance-related features.

It is reported that those frameworks that are designed to improve performance and have default performance enhancements will be preferred in funding allocation. The framework development team can apply for Google sponsorship through this link.

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Chrome product manager Nicole Sullivan and Google engineering leader Malte Ubl also said that the popularity, scale and adoption rate of the framework would not be considered a decisive factor in the selection.

“We want developers to be creative in approaching and solving the performance problem on the web but at a high-level we’ll be looking at features that directly impact loading performance (e.g. use of feature policies, smart bundling, code-splitting, differential serving) and runtime performance (e.g. breaking tasks into smaller, schedulable chunks & keeping fps high).”

Via: ZDNet