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React.js with Sebastian Markbage and Christopher Chedeau

JavaScript Archives - Software Engineering Daily

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The Virtual DOM Diffing Is Getting Better With Modern Browsers

One of the big breakthroughs is that you're able to batch changes. And so in this period of time that you have to spend on marshaling JavaScript code into essentially C++ code, you can batch that. There's another issue that is related, which is the DOM APIs have synchronous read operations. So what you really want to do is do all your writes first and then all your reads instead of doing write read, write read,write read.

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