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Supper Club × Rich Harris, Author of Svelte

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

CHAPTER

The Virtual Doman Is Not a Mechanism for Making Things Fast

A virtual dom is a way of allowing you to build applications declaratively that is not desperately slow. Virtual doms are overhead, because they need to be diffed in order for the code to work properly. The most common problem with virtual doms is their high cost and lack of performance.

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