the "strawman" of updating innerHTML on every change isn't that far from the truth of how a lot of backbone apps worked, you had a template that you'd render an

the "strawman" of updating innerHTML on every change isn't that far from the truth of how a lot of backbone apps worked, you had a template that you'd render and set to innerHTML on input change, maybe the app would be broken down into different parts with their own template and the app would spend a bunch of logic tracking which changes updated which parts or trying to batch changes up, but that's not far off for a lot of backbone apps. One of the big selling points of react was you could basically write your app that way and it would fine.