This has been FUD promoted by the React project since its inception. I first heard, and believed this, when I didn't understand web dev. I assumed it had some m

This has been FUD promoted by the React project since its inception. I first heard, and believed this, when I didn't understand web dev. I assumed it had some magic interaction with the browser. Reality: React is, and has been, slow, compared to directed DOM updates using JS. It's a JS library that maintains intermediate memory representation of the DOM, and usescomputations that update the DOM with that. I assume the react is fast descriptor is comparing to a strawman. (The original Angular maybe?)