Have you looked into Preact? Aside from the convenience of being (almost) a drop-in replacement for React, I recall it was also supposed to be much more perform

Have you looked into Preact? Aside from the convenience of being (almost) a drop-in replacement for React, I recall it was also supposed to be much more performant. While I'm sure pure JS DOM could eke out even better performance, it's possible that compared to Preact (or some other fast VDOM implementation like mithril), the benefits are not worth it anymore. (I'm not sure of any of this though, so I'd love to hear others, who have kicked the tires, weigh in.