React: RESTful UI Rendering

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Claims that React reframes UI rendering as a RESTlike architecture and shows concrete wins: a virtual DOM diffing engine that computes minimal DOM ops, event buffering that coalesces updates into a single tick, and shouldComponentUpdate hooks that deliver order‑of‑magnitude speedups on lists. Production uses include Graph Search, News Feed, chat and instagram.com is one giant react component and the implementation converges to a consistent state and reduces unpredictable cascading updates.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:02RESTful UI Programming
3. 3:11The Evolution of Distributed Systems
4. 4:45Message passing is too low level.
5. 5:23CORBA, RMI, SOAP, DCOM, etc
6. 22:46The implementation

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