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This? https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/ https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/

• crabmusket 2y ago
  Sadly not. I did find this article too while searching for what I remember. It is a close match in so many ways, but also not quite. I remember the article very much taking the approach that you've never heard of React before, and walking through a series of problems and discoveries like "oh, what if we just render the state to the DOM every frame? let's see how that works". Almost like a "you could have invented React" kind of vibe. I think there was a button-counter demo app.
  • WA 2y ago
    Not a live preview and not a button-counter demo at the end, but the overall structure and the whole O(n) vs O(n^2) argumentation was in this blog post from a now defunct domain. Maybe this is what you were looking for: https://web.archive.org/web/20150414080539/http://hackflow.com/blog/2015/03/08/boiling-react-down-to-few-lines-in-jquery/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150414080539/http://hackflow.c...
    • crabmusket 2y ago
      This definitely looks different, and I don't recall seeing this before. But this is a great post! It communicates some of the very important ideas in a straightforward way. Thanks!
  • acemarke 2y ago
    Are you maybe thinking of this classic post? - https://archive.jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Complexity,-or-Why-React-is-Awesome https://archive.jlongster.com/Removing-User-Interface-Comple...
    • crabmusket 2y ago
      Another one that seems so close that it makes me think I imagined the one I'm looking for, and this is actually what I read. Thanks for trying - it's not causing me to say eureka! but it is close.