>Virtual DOM approaches never really were about performance. "React abstracts away the DOM from you, giving a simpler programming model and better performance"

>Virtual DOM approaches never really were about performance. "React abstracts away the DOM from you, giving a simpler programming model and better performance" https://github.com/facebook/react https://github.com/facebook/react It seems strange to me that many developers are now trying to convince everyone that vdom wasn't selling as a way to get better performance. Yes, getting rid of data changes over time is important property of vdom approaches, but when all this vdom hype were started, everyone is also talked how awesome it is in terms of performance.