Frameworkless Front-End Development: Do You Control Your Dependencies Or Are They Controlling You?

© Francesco Strazzullo 2019

F. StrazzulloFrameworkless Front-End Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4967-3_2

2. Rendering

Francesco Strazzullo¹ 

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TREVISO, Treviso, Italy

 

One of the most important features of any web application is displaying data. On a more “close to the metal” level, displaying data means rendering elements to the screen or another output device. The way that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) defines rendering elements programmatically is with the Document Object Model, also known as DOM. The purpose of this chapter is to learn how to effectively manipulate DOMs without frameworks.

The Document Object Model

The DOM is an API that lets you manipulate the elements that make up a web application. You can read more about ...