Virtual DOM as alternate to sandboxing

[3rd-Eden]

We're currently sandboxing the CSS by namespacing it with the name of the pagelet. The JavaScript sandboxing will be done a future release when we enable our fortress module. The only thing left to sandbox is the DOM. And DOM sandboxing is hard, but due to recent brainfarts I came up with the idea of re-using the virtual DOM idea of react and implement a similar process in bigpipe.

It would solve the sandboxing issues as you would not be modifying the actual dom but a virual dom. In addition to sandboxing it would also introduce high performance as only a diff of the DOM will be updated instead of a complete update of each pagelet.

[jcrugzz]

@3rd-Eden we should think about how we can make it possible to interop with something like react or other modules that handle this type of role. A way to make these types of solutions plugin to bigpipe well could be quite powerful.

[3rd-Eden]

@jcrugzz So ideally, it would be a plugin then. Than we can switch between react, virtualdom & others.

[jcrugzz]

@3rd-Eden yea thats my thought