Conf 2015 Beyond the DOM: How Netflix plans to enhance your television experience

Jafar Husain, Netflix Netflix has rebuilt our mobile and web UIs. These UIs are hosted in the browser, and we ve seen big performance gains thanks to React s virtual DOM. But what if the DOM is just too slow on a given platform Netflix uses a canvaslike API to maximize performance on smart TVs and game consoles. Given that React improved performance and simplified the code on our other platforms, we asked ourselves could React work without the DOM Yes. Not only is it possible to use React without th