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All modern JavaScript frameworks - React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Qwik, Angular - exist for one reason... to stop you from manually updating the DOM like it’s 2004. In this video, we break down the one idea they all revolve around, how we got here, and why everything feels kinda… the same.
You’ll see how we went from JavaScript to jQuery to dirty checking to signals and resumability - and why, underneath all the fancy syntax, every framework is solving the exact same problem.
NOTE: Angular started with dirty checking but now uses change detection. I meant to mention this in the video.
You’ll Never Manually Update the DOM Again — Here’s Why
All Modern JS Frameworks Are Lying to You (But in a Good Way)
Why Modern JS Frameworks Exist
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