Identify the modified channel’s ID and unread state.

For example, consider how you’d use vanilla JavaScript to update Slack’s channel sidebar when a channel becomes unread:

React excels in consolidating all the ways a component can change into a single template. React is like having an army of gnomes making bespoke DOM updates on your behalf. For instance, you could tell React to re-render the entire view with new model data, and it might determine that it only needs to update the text of a few nodes. React can compare two Virtual DOM trees to determine the fewest actions required to transform the first tree into the second. Instead, they render into a DOM-like tree called the Virtual DOM. Components don’t generate markup on their own. The API is trim, consisting primarily of a Component class that includes a handful of lifecycle methods. Briefly, React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to write declarative, data-driven user interfaces. If you’re unfamiliar with it, I’d suggest browsing the official docs. This post assumes some knowledge of React. Slack’s Emoji Picker Virtual DOM with actual benefits

It didn’t take long to find a perfect candidate - the highly used and surprisingly complex Emoji Picker. We wanted a component that was interactive, self-contained, and demanding enough to prove our assumption that React could improve performance. We determined that the best way to introduce React would be to rebuild an existing product feature - that way, we could compare the development process and end result to a known quantity. Slack is evolving alongside the industry to improve performance and reliability. In contrast, React’s “render and re-render” pattern makes consistency the default. jQuery’s “render and modify” approach is straightforward, but it’s prone to falling out of sync with the underlying model. Since then, the community has developed better ways to create scalable, data-driven interfaces. When Slack was first built, our frontend consisted of established technologies like jQuery and Handlebars. Slack is transitioning its web client to React.

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