Vue essentials - Render functions

When Vue passes a template whether that be your index.html file or whether that be a

string in JavaScript that you've assigned to a component, what it does is, it goes through

and turns each of the DOM elements into a virtual node and so basically what that means

is it turns this HTML string into JavaScript data that represents the DOM.

So all these nodes together, we call them the virtual DOM.

So Vue.js isn't the only framework that does