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dfabulich on April 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?

Perf boost compared to what? It can't be a FCP perf boost relative to server-side rendered plain old CSS and HTML, because shadow DOM requires client-side JavaScript.

Plain old CSS is able to parse and render before the JS required to launch web components has even finished.

lowkeyokay on April 12, 2019 [–]

It can be a performance boost because it only updates the part of the DOM tree that has changed. Not completely unlike React’s virtual DOM

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