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> abstracting away DOM manipulation, which was never a real problem in the first place Until you try to build a large app and get murdered by maintainability p
by mambodog 11y ago
> abstracting away DOM manipulation, which was never a real problem in the first place
Until you try to build a large app and get murdered by maintainability problems (eg. treating the DOM as a store of mutable state, managing event listener binding lifecycles, etc) and performance issues (eg. DOM reads and writes to occurring in an interleaved fashion inside inner loops)