Yup. Pretty much any virtual-dom approach benefits from this type of solution. Furthermore, if you adopt any sort of system on top of the v-dom approach that do

Yup. Pretty much any virtual-dom approach benefits from this type of solution. Furthermore, if you adopt any sort of system on top of the v-dom approach that does layout management with CSS 3D matrices like famo.us does, you end up greatly benefiting from a solution like this as well. Cascading doesn't work really that well if you don't have explicit and persistent semantic nesting all the way down the tree of elements in a window.