Try making a web app rerenders the DOM on any state change, it will be extremely...

daliwali · on Oct 21, 2016

State change, eh? There's this, which diffs only local updates and doesn't use a vDOM: http://simulacra.js.org/

Disclosure: I'm the author.

munro · on Oct 21, 2016

Tracking changes to application state & translating to DOM changes is nothing new, [1] it's what Angular, Angular2, Riot, Knockout all do, and doomed to efficiently translating any complex state changes. [2] Not only that, feeding application state in from an API will cause the all the dependent UI to completely rerender.

[1] https://github.com/sapeien/simulacra/blob/master/lib/bind_ke... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12757722

icedchai · on Oct 21, 2016

You don't need vDOM/diffing for many types of applications. Your CRUD app doesn't need to update at 60 FPS.

munro · on Oct 21, 2016

Diffing is an implementation detail. Imperatively updating might still be needed to hit that 60 FPS ;D

Personally, I lean toward server side web apps ATM--users are familiar with page reloads, and developers are familiar with building them.

This is changing--users want faster UX, designers want fancier UI, PMs want cross platform apps. These external wants have developers creating & familiarizing with simpler ways to achieve them.