[andrezsanchez]

Imperative DOM manipulation is a pain one way or another. React does a great job of alleviating this pain by allowing for declarative DOM manipulation, but it would be great to be able to do this without needing the rest of React.

[grosskur]

You might be interested in the virtual-dom and vdom-thunk NPM packages, which are used in mercury:

https://github.com/Raynos/mercury

See also Raynos's "NPM-style Frontend" presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w0_Xw7PPFQ