What is that of the React Virtual DOM?

An introduction to React Virtual DOM and the way it optimizes application painting

Gerardo Fernández
Nov 4 · 5 min read

Surely if you have worked with React or have heard something about this library, the term “Virtual DOM” sounds to you, since it is one of its main concepts and the reason that allows it to have such a high performance when updating the DOM . Therefore, I thought…

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