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What is the DOM and what is the React Virtual DOM? React fundamentals

What is the DOM and what is the React Virtual DOM? React fundamentals

From the course: Building UI Components with Storybook: Master React Components and UI Design with Storybook for Better Efficiency

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What is the DOM and what is the React Virtual DOM? React fundamentals

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I see you're still with me. Buckle up, my friends. Let's learn basics in React. React can be daunting and confusing, especially for those of you who come from jQuery and have never made the leap into more modern or vanilla JS direct DOM manipulation and never really made that leap into abstractions of the DOM and what that can mean. If all that's gibberish, worry not. We're going to go through it. We're Buckle up, because even though it may seem daunting, there's tons and tons of videos out there, tons and tons of resources. ChatGPT can have a field day with you on this topic. I'm going to teach it in a way that I feel helps make sense to me after years of using it without getting caught up on things that can bog us down. So let's back up a minute. What are we doing? We want to build web applications, right? And we discussed in the previous section that there are amazing libraries out there that allow us to build web applications in a more scalable, modular, maintainable way than just…

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