# 🍔🧠 Why Linear Feels So Fast (Technical Breakdown)

DevFeed: [🍔🧠 Why Linear Feels So Fast (Technical Breakdown)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-linear-feels-so-fast-technical-breakdown-18139.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hungrymindsdev.substack.com/p/why-linear-feels-so-fast-technical>)

Author: Alexandre Zajac

Published: 2026-07-20T15:30:40Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hungry Minds](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hungry-minds.md>)

Topics: [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Local-First](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/local-first.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/client.md>), [WebSocket](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/websocket.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [Vite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vite.md>), [npm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/npm.md>)

Tags: [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [linear](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linear.md>), [local-first](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/local-first.md>), [npm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/npm.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>), [vite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vite.md>), [websocket](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/websocket.md>)

## AI overview

A technical breakdown of how Linear aims to feel fast by minimizing network latency. It describes local-first state updates, asynchronous synchronization over WebSocket, code splitting, parallel module loading, service-worker precaching, and separately cached dependency chunks.

## Source excerpt

PLUS: Virtual memory explained 👨💻, Spark retires vector DBs 💾, Backprop explained simply 🧮