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Discussion on: Million.js - The Future of Virtual DOM

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Charles F. Munat

What about SolidJS?

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Aiden Bai

What part of SolidJS?

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Charles F. Munat

SolidJS compiles down the way Svelte does and runs in the DOM. There is no virtual DOM. And it is extremely fast -- slower only than vanilla JS. And truly reactive, like RxJS. Is uses JSX as its templating language -- no VDOM needed. It can be used with Web Components. You can use native DOM events, etc.

What does Million.js give me that SolidJS lacks? What problem are you solving that SolidJS hasn't already solved? You might chat with @ryansolid about it if you're really interested in hearing an alternative view from the source.

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Aiden Bai

Million.js isn't competing in the same field as SolidJS -- Million.js is a Virtual DOM engine, which libraries can be built off of (e.g. React), and SolidJS is a fully fledged library.

Million.js attempts to use techniques specified to reduce diffing (the main bottleneck of Virtual DOM) by assuming that the library developer will leverage the compiler to optimize.

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Charles F. Munat

I see. I guess if you want to stick with React or Vue or whatever (they have huge ecosystems), then it does make sense. I'm not sure I see -- if the SolidJS approach works -- what the advantage is that makes building yet more VDOM-based libraries/frameworks. But maybe it's just me.