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What is the virtual DOM?

What is the virtual DOM?

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What is the virtual DOM?

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- [Instructor] One of the most significant developments in recent history has been the rise of the virtual DOM as the technology that can help speed up development. So let's take a look at what the virtual DOM is and how it can help you develop projects faster. Now, before I get to talk about the virtual DOM it's probably a good idea to talk about how the regular DOM works. The DOM is of course the document object model the conceptual structure that is generated when you create a website, you can preview that structure on any website by using a tool like Google Chrome and looking at the inspect option. So let's go to this page right here and I'm going to right click anywhere on this page and select inspect document that you can see the DOM is represented here by this hierarchical tree. And I can open up the different parts of the DOM by clicking on these left arrows and Google Chrome I can also navigate the DOM down here. So…

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