But an headless React is only tangentially related to headless components.
Acko is building a React alternative that follows all React semantics but without any render at all. That means no DOM, no nothing. Just components and effects (un)mounting and updating.
The virtual dom concept and this blog’s concept has this in common, but this is different because this blog is generalizing it away from the dom. For an example, it applies ideas to graphics (via WebGPU).
Acko is building a React alternative that follows all React semantics but without any render at all. That means no DOM, no nothing. Just components and effects (un)mounting and updating.