Why Virtual DOM is considered faster that directly updating the real DOM.

• morphdom

  13 3,091 4.2 JavaScript

  Fast and lightweight DOM diffing/patching (no virtual DOM needed)

Updating the DOM is not slow. In fact, there are libraries and frameworks that emphatically reject the virtual dom approach. morphdom is one such example of a DOM modification library. Svelte's author Rich Harris has been proclaiming for a while that virtual dom is an overhead (see e.g. this article). Google's lit-html and lit-element do much of what react does without the virtual dom.

• solid

  20 5,767 9.3 TypeScript

  Discontinued A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces. [Moved to: https://github.com/solidui/solid] (by ryansolid)

  

The strength of V-DOM definitely doesn't lay in performance. It made it easier for developers to write more maintainable interactive UI. Other than that I'd rather think of it as a compromise. Fortunately, frontend web dev continuously progresses and there are initiatives like https://github.com/ryansolid/solid which focus on compilation-time diffing.

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• awesome-react-renderer

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