Virtual DOM Performance
Cluster centers on debates about whether Virtual DOM (as used in React and similar frameworks) is faster than direct DOM manipulation, questioning performance benefits, diffing overhead, and comparisons to vanilla JS or alternatives.
Activity Over Time
Top Contributors
Keywords
Sample Comments
Virtual Dom faster than direct manipulation? Source please.
Can someone explain to me why virtual DOM is faster than DOM implementations of browsers?
You do know the vdom eventually has to change the DOM right? In the end the vdom always will have to do more work than regular dom manipulations.
Virtual DOM is "just because"? Huh, guess I imagined those performance benefits.
You overestimate the cost of modern DOM operations. It's a battle between your virtual DOM (to optimize DOM operations without lots of diffing overhead) and the native DOM (which is frequently a bunch of JS that can get inlined and avoid duplicate work)
VirtualDOM is why.vanilla.js is better
Touching DOM is an expensive operation. Think about the virtual DOM as a double buffer.
Can you give an example of a problem that would take significantly longer solving with React than with DOM manipulation?
This is supposed to work with "light" dom right? Will it update fast like a vdom framework?
Won't the diffing algorithm prevent a DOM update anyway?