React Fiber is a complete rewrite of the React core algorithm introduced in React 16, which addresses the limitations of the previous React reconciliation algorithm, providing better performance, improved user experience, and more advanced capabilities for handling complex updates.
React Fiber enhances the rendering process by enabling incremental rendering, allowing React to pause work and continue later, prioritizing updates and keeping the user interface (UI) responsive, even during complex and heavy tasks.
React Fiber has key features like Incremental Rendering, Prioritization, Concurrency, Error Boundaries, Time-Slicing, Better Animations and Transitions.
React Fiber's internal architecture is built around the concept of fiber objects, which are lightweight representations of React components. These fiber objects hold the state of the component and are connected in a tree-like structure.
React Fiber makes animations smoother by giving more control over the render cycle and prioritizing animations over other tasks.
React Fiber and Concurrent Mode, which allows React to interrupt rendering to work on high-priority tasks, result in smoother user experiences.
React Fiber provides Incremental rendering and prioritization, improving performance, especially in large applications with complex updates.
Fiber’s ability to perform time-slicing ensures that even complex UIs remain responsive, with minimal lag and jank.
With Fiber, React can handle errors more gracefully and allow apps to recover without crashing.
React Fiber gives developers more control over rendering and enables concurrent rendering, improving responsiveness, and allowing for better optimization of resources and performance.