One of Reacts strengths is that it is NOT an MVC or MVVM framework. These frameworks can get quite slow when there are a lot of complex updates being made to the underlying models. The frameworks are continuously monitoring for changes and one change to one component can lead to hundreds or thousands of changes to other objects, and the frameworks are continuously updating the DOM to visualize the changes.
In my previous blog I introduced React – a new(ish) JavaScript library for building “Web Components”. In this post I will start to dive deeper by building our first React Web Components.
Browser based JavaScript code is all about manipulating the browser’s DOM.
Up until a few years ago, at DNN Corp we had primarily been using jQuery to do that manipulation. Don’t get me wrong jQuery is an awesome framework, but jQuery directly manipulates the DOM - there is no concept of working with models/objects in jQuery – i.e. separating your presentation aspects from your other logic.
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