The History of Intercooler

React came out of a situation where I was writing some pretty hairy jQuery code to update a table dynamically and the performance was just atrocious. And so I tried rendering it on the client side and then slamming it into the DOM and it was instant. So I said to myself, well, self, let's not do a bunch of front end stuff. Let's just try and formalize this notion of Ajax grabbing some HTML and slamming it intoDOM.