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React provides an immediate mode API (virtual DOM, which is recreated from scratch on every render) implemented on top of a retained mode API (the actual DOM wh

by pygy_ 8y ago

React provides an immediate mode API (virtual DOM, which is recreated from scratch on every render) implemented on top of a retained mode API (the actual DOM which is stateful). Diffing and piecemeal updates are an implementation detail/optimization.

jules 8y ago
Diffing results in different behavior if components have internal state.