[rpedela]

I am working on a web application that is dynamic enough that the standard way to build websites makes it really hard. So I started building my own version of React. Found React some time later and switched because it was better than my crappy code.

Why was I trying to build React? I wanted a framework that behaved more like a video game render loop or a desktop UI framework. I wanted a framework where I could simply update the data and the complicated view would update itself efficiently (as few draw calls as possible). I wanted a framework that felt like those much better tools (in my opinion) I was used to on the desktop.

React is the very first web framework to do that and it was a huge breath of fresh air for me. However that does not mean every website needs to be built with React. In fact it is probably overkill for most websites.

[3131s]

> I wanted a framework that behaved more like a video game render loop

I had that thought the other day, apparently it's not so novel after all! Does anybody know of other frameworks that take this sort of approach?

[pitaj]

Anything with a Virtual DOM pretty much.