Comment by jkkramer

Things would also be significantly sped up if you compiled in production mode. From looking at your source, all the dev mode checks are still being performed. See:

https://facebook.github.io/react/downloads.html (the note under npm section)

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/1772

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22118915/how-to-turn-on-o...