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JavaScript Template Instantiation for Fast Updates
Each template that you have in lit, you are maintaining what is essentially a lookup table. And here's a pointer to where this lives in the DOM so I can update it as fast as humanly possible. So we've been working with Apple and Chrome on a couple of proposals called template instantiation or DOM parts. It lets us pretty trivially handle the case we have like a sub template, but it's a conditional and you're swapping between two sub templates. If the condition swinches and you render a new one, we're like, have we rendered this template here? The answer is no. Clear that and start the process over again.
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