diff --git a/docs/07-working-with-the-browser.md b/docs/07-working-with-the-browser.md index c654f9a9..0ea557d4 100644 --- a/docs/07-working-with-the-browser.md +++ b/docs/07-working-with-the-browser.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ next: more-about-refs.html React provides powerful abstractions that free you from touching the DOM directly in most cases, but sometimes you simply need to access the underlying API, perhaps to work with a third-party library or existing code. -## The Mock DOM +## The Virtual DOM React is so fast because it never talks to the DOM directly. React maintains a fast in-memory representation of the DOM. `render()` methods return a *description* of the DOM, and React can diff this description with the in-memory representation to compute the fastest way to update the browser.