React.js with Sebastian Markbage and Christopher Chedeau
JavaScript Archives - Software Engineering Daily
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React Native - The Document Object Model
The DOM is the original thing that spawned a web before JavaScript. It's basically a C++ class hierarchy implemented in the web risers. And then JavaScript manipulates that. So one of the things we did with React is realize that actually there's a lot of overhead going back and forth here. We made a design decision to make a lot of the APIs as synchronous, which is easy when it's to have a declarative model.
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