[gulugawa]

Facebook spent a lot of effort marketing React, and there are widespread misunderstandings about React that made it popular. One of the most hyped features of React was a "virtual DOM" that supposedly improved rendering speed, but actually did not significantly improve performance.

Rendering a UI should be quite fast, even for a complex web app. Noticeable slowness in the UI is due to poorly optimized rendering, or logic that has nothing to do with rendering.

Nowadays, it is considered a default choice for a UI framework.