Svelte first came around in 2015-2016, and never had a virtual DOM - it was actually the one that introduced compiler-based optimizated DOM updates. This is men

Svelte first came around in 2015-2016, and never had a virtual DOM - it was actually the one that introduced compiler-based optimizated DOM updates. This is mentioned in the Solid.js documentation [1]. Svelte itself is a successor to Ractive.js which already existed in 2013 [2] with similar ideas, but before JS transpilers came into the picture. [1] https://www.solidjs.com/guides/comparison#svelte https://www.solidjs.com/guides/comparison#svelte [2] first npm release: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ractive/v/0.2.0 https://www.npmjs.com/package/ractive/v/0.2.0