Words don't have any meaning anymore if react (and the HTML DOM) is considered anything close to "immediate mode".
For starters the DOM is a declarative thing - immediate mode means that you have a function called for each frame with imperative function calls written by the user of the immediate mode GUI toolkit for rendering each element of the GUI every time (unlike retained mode where a framework hides that behind some object model). It's not really possible to be more opposite to a declarative approach.
For starters the DOM is a declarative thing - immediate mode means that you have a function called for each frame with imperative function calls written by the user of the immediate mode GUI toolkit for rendering each element of the GUI every time (unlike retained mode where a framework hides that behind some object model). It's not really possible to be more opposite to a declarative approach.