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Vidact compiles React function components into direct DOM operations, eliminating Virtual DOM
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Vidact is a compiler in beta that transforms React function components and hooks into direct DOM operations, removing the Virtual DOM, re-renders, and the React runtime from the output bundle.
For engineers shipping React applications, Vidact offers a path to smaller bundles and surgical DOM updates by compiling away the Virtual DOM layer entirely. The build-time failure model for unsupported patterns means adoption risks surface during compilation rather than at runtime.
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Vidact compiles React function components and hooks into direct DOM operations, producing output with no Virtual DOM, no re-renders, and no React runtime in the bundle.
State changes trigger only the specific DOM updaters that read the changed state, avoiding component re-renders and tree diffs.
Vidact Start provides file-based routing, server loaders, SSR, hydration, and client navigation, with server and browser output matching by construction through the same compiler.
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