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		namelosw on May 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018) I'm not sure if it's still an 'interface' since it's compiling another language to imperative code which operates DOM API. So it requires other platforms implements a similar imperative API surface as DOM.

awesomepeter on May 19, 2019 [–]

Which is the same thing that a virtual DOM does, it also has to have an adapter(react-dom in Reacts case) which applies the VDOM to the real DOM via it's imperative API.

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