As others have said, this is a unique situation for the text editor component. In a lot of more conventional situations, it's very likely that React's diffing

As others have said, this is a unique situation for the text editor component. In a lot of more conventional situations, it's very likely that React's diffing code is highly tuned for performance over years and will do as good a job as you manually writing the JS, while saving you a ton of time in having to worry constantly about the DOM.