The React and Vue.js JavaScript libraries share some of the best ideas in web development. Which should you choose? Was it just a few years ago when we built our websites by lovingly placing each tag ...

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The concept of a virtual Document Object Model (DOM) was first introduced by the JavaScript framework React in 2013 and is still used today, both by React and other frameworks like Vue.js. The idea is ...

To take on Facebook’s vaunted React JavaScript library, the Vue.js front-end framework has been upgraded with a virtual DOM layer improving speed and memory consumption. Version 2.0 of Vue.js, ...

During the construction of the virtual DOM, the Vue.js runtime assigns a shape flag to each virtual node. For example, if a node only has string children, it receives the TEXT_CHILDREN shape flag that ...