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by itsbits 1627 days ago
> Now React is stuck with it's virtual DOM. But sure Richard, take the credit for being fast if you want.

Would it be hard for React to remove VirtualDOM(if they don't believe), and maintain most of API?
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okareaman 1627 days ago
Dan Abramov is fairly responsive on Twitter. I'd ask him.
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ice_cold_etoh 1627 days ago
Did you mean: preact
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CitrusFruits 1627 days ago
Preact uses a virtual DOM still.
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ice_cold_etoh 1627 days ago
Oh my bad, totally mess this up.

But I think VDOM is pretty much the core idea of react so it just wouldn't make sense for them to get rid of it. And also with React 18 coming with features like automatic batched updates and suspense, I would imagine it would be pretty hard to do without VDOM maybe?

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itsbits 1627 days ago
may be it's one of challenges for devs, who ever are interested to make React alternative with same API and dev experiance without VirtualDOM support.
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