This reminds me of an article I read a while back: https://hackernoon.com/server-side-rendering-shootout-with-marko-preact-rax-react-and-vue-25e1ae17800f https:

This reminds me of an article I read a while back: https://hackernoon.com/server-side-rendering-shootout-with-marko-preact-rax-react-and-vue-25e1ae17800f https://hackernoon.com/server-side-rendering-shootout-with-m... Not sure if the benchmarks still hold now that React 16 is out, but there's definitely overhead in the general approach. > HTTP can only send strings/bytes, so it makes sense to start there and skip the overhead of building up a virtual DOM representation first. There’s a reason string based templating languages are so much faster than our modern frameworks using a virtual DOM implementation.