Yeah, I cannot count how many times I've seen it claimed that the virtual DOM is the secret to why React(or another framework) is fast, completely missing the point of the virtual DOM.
The virtual DOM is not faster than performing direct mutations of the actual DOM, the virtual DOM is a tool that allows the normally slow approach of "blow away and rebuild the world" to be fast enough to put into use.
The virtual DOM is not faster than performing direct mutations of the actual DOM, the virtual DOM is a tool that allows the normally slow approach of "blow away and rebuild the world" to be fast enough to put into use.