Exactly. The React paradigm is to never mutate the DOM directly, but instead let React mutate it. I wrote a friendly intro here: http://blog.reverberate.org/2

Exactly. The React paradigm is to never mutate the DOM directly, but instead let React mutate it. I wrote a friendly intro here: http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/02/react-demystified.html http://blog.reverberate.org/2014/02/react-demystified.html