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hombre_fatal04/23/20251 replyview on HN

One interesting benefit React's tree + diffing system is that you can use a custom reconciler to do more than just create and update DOM nodes.

And a good example of that are React libraries that turn stateful imperative APIs into declarative nodes:

- https://r3f.docs.pmnd.rs/getting-started/introduction

- https://github.com/pixijs/pixi-react


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ryansolid04/23/2025

It isn't necessary. Solid has a similar custom renderer, with Pixi, three.js, terminal, etc... integrations. Solid is actually used a lot in embedded applications since it is low memory and performant. It powers Comcast's TV application applications like Peacock.