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SE Radio 557: Timothy Beamish on React and Next.js

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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The Benefits of React Superpowers

React holds on to a copy of what the UI looks like in the background. It's called the shadow DOM, and React is able to update the shadow DOM. So it uses the shadow DOM to figure out what parts of the real screen do I need to paint? And then it does the process of rendering, which is putting pixels in the right color in the right place on a screen.

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