[konsumer]

I think this is correct, like in the sense that react uses a VDom. When you make changes, you sort of pretend that you are changing everything, but the rendering engine figures out the differences to the real DOM, based on the in-memory changes, and makes minimal edits to it. This is why you can use react with all kinds of things that aren't DOM or even web-related (react-native, react-blessed, react-babylonjs, etc.) I contributed to react-blessed & react-babylonjs, and wrote the main chunk of react-babylonjs's current fiber system. You essentially just use the VDOm to describe the full graph, and that graph doesn't have to be DOM at all.