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		gear54rus on June 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot You described an SPA. Fetch relevant data and render to controls. Not sure why we need canvas for that.

blackrock on June 21, 2020 [–]

You are correct. I just inadvertently re-invented React.

winrid on June 21, 2020 | [–]

React is a view engine and isn't using the canvas.

React pretty much is just a fast way to determine what to re-render on a page as a result of a state change.

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