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Dealing with Life Beyond 60fps! 📽️
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Dealing with Life Beyond 60fps! 📽️

Right under our noses, the frame rates returned by requestAnimationFrame have gone up over the years. Let's dive deeper into why this is and figure out what to do.

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Our screens have a speed at which they draw and redraw pixels. This is commonly referred to as the refresh rate:

We can see that this screen has a refresh rate of 60Hz. This means that what we see on screen is redrawn 60 times a second. Now, why am I taking up your valuable time to draw attention to this detail?

The reason is this. For the longest time, w…

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