How Virtual DOM Works in React 🌿

⚛️ Introduction

When you build a React app, one of the things that makes it fast and efficient is something called the Virtual DOM.

But what exactly is the Virtual DOM? 🤔

Let’s understand this in the simplest way possible — with real-life examples, diagrams (conceptually), and React code snippets!

🧩 What Is the DOM?

The DOM (Document Object Model) is a tree-like structure that represents your web page.

Every HTML element — like <div>, <p>, or <button> — is a node in this tree.