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Why compare it to that? There is no reason to avoid innerHTML anymore - it's not slow at all.

There is rarely a reason to build HTML using createElement, it's only sometimes needed. The majority of the time just write HTML - it's much easier.

> Or you could use a templating library

Or just use the built in <template> tag.

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Not slow compared to what? Creating elements with the DOM API is faster than innerHTML roughly by a factor of 4 on Chrome Canary last I benchmarked it, DOM mutations with bindings are even faster. There is a reason why React switched from innerHTML to generating DOM.

>Creating elements with the DOM API is faster than innerHTML roughly by a factor of 4 on Chrome Canary last I benchmarked it

yes, almost by a factor of 4 :D

check out "render" test cases:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/localvoid/dd96890b82f1d1268df34330b14...

Template libraries are fine, but there are cases where you hope you could just write JavaScript..

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