Re:Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should
by bregma on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:13PM
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What's a virtual dom? Some sort of socially-distanced BDSM scene? What does it have to do with imperative programming and object-oriented languages?
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Re:Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should
by triceratops on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:03PM
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Probably taken from: https://reactjs.org/docs/faq-internals.html#:~:text=The%20vi....
Tl;dr It's a representation of the Document Object Model in JavaScript/application land. Changes are made to it before updating the actual DOM, because real updates will cause reflows, repaints and other expensive operations that can slow down the page.
No idea what that has to do with anything else GP said though.