Virtual DOM: What problem does it solve?

I vividly remember a conversation I had with a co-worker in 2014. He was enthusiastic about a JavaScript library developed internally by Facebook that the company had decided to make open-source. I’m talking, of course, about React.

Like many at the time, I was skeptical. Mixing JavaScript with Html?! What a horrible idea! What about jsx then? For heaven’s sake, no! Leave my HTML templates alone! It is obvious that CSS should be separated from HTML and HTML separate from JavaScript! 😤

My opinion was no exception. The web development community in general was not very receptive to React’s ideas.

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