Echo JS 0.11.0

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sylvainpv 3543 days ago. link -1 point ▲ ▼
Both React and Web Components are overrated in my opinion. React is 127KB, Web Components polyfill is 105KB. This is a huge overhead for clients just to solve problems that can be dealt with build tools on the developper side. I have seen many benchmarks on DOM manipulation here, but never heard a client complaining "Oh, this DOM is slow". The number one problem in web performance has always been network latency.

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nickdima 3542 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼
The point of React is not to speed up the DOM
sylvainpv 3540 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼
what is the purpose of virtual DOM if not to speed up DOM manipulation ?
nickdima 3531 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼
The virtual DOM is an implementation detail needed for performing render on every state change. The main feature of React is re-rendering everything when the state changes. Which would be impossible without a virtual DOM.
sylvainpv 3531 days ago. link 0 point ▲ ▼
You don't need a virtual DOM to re-render everything when state changes. We did not wait for React nor Angular to write change detection algorithms. Virtual DOM is one of the techniques of data-binding, and presumed the best performing. A few milliseconds saved at rendering, tenths of a second lost at initial loading. Is it really worth it ?