diff --git a/src/main/java/com/winterbe/react/React.java b/src/main/java/com/winterbe/react/React.java
index 3c3f22b..bda7054 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/winterbe/react/React.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/winterbe/react/React.java
@@ -2,43 +2,58 @@
 
 import jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.NashornScriptEngine;
 
-import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
-import javax.script.ScriptException;
+import javax.script.*;
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.Reader;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 public class React {
 
-    private ThreadLocal<NashornScriptEngine> engineHolder = new ThreadLocal<NashornScriptEngine>() {
+    private ThreadLocal<CompiledScript> scriptHolder = new ThreadLocal<CompiledScript>(){
         @Override
-        protected NashornScriptEngine initialValue() {
-            NashornScriptEngine nashornScriptEngine = (NashornScriptEngine) new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("nashorn");
+        protected CompiledScript initialValue() {
+
+            String script = Stream.of("static/nashorn-polyfill.js",
+                    "static/vendor/react.js",
+                    "static/vendor/showdown.min.js",
+                    "static/commentBox.js")
+                    .map(ThrowingFunction.wrap(React::slurp)).collect(Collectors.joining());
+
             try {
-                nashornScriptEngine.eval(read("static/nashorn-polyfill.js"));
-                nashornScriptEngine.eval(read("static/vendor/react.js"));
-                nashornScriptEngine.eval(read("static/vendor/showdown.min.js"));
-                nashornScriptEngine.eval(read("static/commentBox.js"));
+                ScriptEngine engine =  new ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByName("JavaScript");
+                Compilable compilingEngine = (Compilable) engine;
+                CompiledScript cs = compilingEngine.compile(script);
+
+                // this is a noop but required to initialize the context of the compiled script
+                cs.eval(engine.getBindings(ScriptContext.ENGINE_SCOPE));
+                return cs;
             } catch (ScriptException e) {
                 throw new RuntimeException(e);
             }
-            return nashornScriptEngine;
         }
     };
 
     public  String renderCommentBox(List<Comment> comments) {
         try {
-            Object html = engineHolder.get().invokeFunction("renderServer", comments);
-            return String.valueOf(html);
+            CompiledScript cscript = scriptHolder.get();
+
+            Invocable invocable = (Invocable) cscript.getEngine();
+
+            return String.valueOf(invocable.invokeFunction("renderServer", comments));
         }
         catch (Exception e) {
             throw new IllegalStateException("failed to render react component", e);
         }
     }
 
-    private Reader read(String path) {
-        InputStream in = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(path);
-        return new InputStreamReader(in);
+    public static String slurp(String path) throws java.io.IOException {
+        try (InputStream resource = React.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(path)) {
+            return String.join("\n", new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(resource,
+                    StandardCharsets.UTF_8)).lines().collect(Collectors.toList())) + "\n";
+        }
     }
 }
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diff --git a/src/main/java/com/winterbe/react/ThrowingFunction.java b/src/main/java/com/winterbe/react/ThrowingFunction.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..348455e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/winterbe/react/ThrowingFunction.java
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package com.winterbe.react;
+import java.util.function.Function;
+
+/**
+ * Checked exceptions side effects which make functional programming hard.
+ * Here we convert checked to unchecked which is something Spring has done for years to compose
+ * interfaces here we are doing it to be able to properly compose functions.
+ *
+ * https://stackoverflow.com/a/29691649/329496
+ * @param <T>
+ * @param <R>
+ */
+@FunctionalInterface
+public interface ThrowingFunction<T,R> extends Function<T,R> {
+
+    @Override
+    public default R apply(T t) {
+        try {
+            return throwingApply(t);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static<T,R> Function<T,R> wrap(ThrowingFunction<T,R> f) {
+        return f;
+    }
+
+    R throwingApply(T t) throws Exception;
+}
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diff --git a/src/test/java/com/winterbe/react/ReactTest.java b/src/test/java/com/winterbe/react/ReactTest.java
index 50a235f..8dcc0cb 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/winterbe/react/ReactTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/winterbe/react/ReactTest.java
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
@@ -15,6 +19,7 @@ public class ReactTest {
 
     @Test
     public void testRenderCommentBox() throws Exception {
+
         List<Comment> comments = new ArrayList<>();
         comments.add(new Comment("Peter Parker", "This is a comment."));
         comments.add(new Comment("John Doe", "This is *another* comment."));