I made a competitor to GitHubs UI for Pull Requests (codeapprove.com)
It’s built in Vue. My first 5 or 6 attempts at writing the diff viewer were very slow when things got big. I optimized this a lot and now I’m pretty proud of how snappy it is.
I’m not saying this as a plug (this is mostly a passion project not a big business) but to say that it’s possible to make a snappy GitHub PR UI using a frontend framework on top of GitHub’s own APIs. You just have to care. It’s not clear that they care.
You would be surprised! I have encountered the attitude that code reviews are a waste of time. It's not common, and I have never seen this attitude "win" across a team/company but it definitely exists. Some engineers are just overconfident, they believe they could fix everything if everyone would just let them code.
Shameless plug but since you asked ... CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) is probably the closest thing you can get to Critique on GitHub. It doesn't help with the Piper/CitC/Code Search parts though, and I agree those were excellent.
It’s built in Vue. My first 5 or 6 attempts at writing the diff viewer were very slow when things got big. I optimized this a lot and now I’m pretty proud of how snappy it is.
I’m not saying this as a plug (this is mostly a passion project not a big business) but to say that it’s possible to make a snappy GitHub PR UI using a frontend framework on top of GitHub’s own APIs. You just have to care. It’s not clear that they care.