VirtualDom implementation

[rupert]

Not really answering your question, but I don’t know if you saw this post from a while back:

Blog: Implementing VDOM in Elm

I just wrote a blog post entitled Implementing VDOM in Elm. It’s meant as an example of some non-trivial Port usage as well as an example of how VDOM actually works without using very much JavaScript. I’m interested to hear your comments: both on the actual code as well as on the presentation (which is mostly code with a bit of writing). I’m not sure how clear it is.

One issue I currently have with the VDOM implementation is that a VirtualDom.Node cannot be passed through a port. If it could, it would make server side rendering a lot simpler, as it would be possible to use a Platform.program and pass the rendered DOM through a port to serve up.