There was a [great article][1] about how react implements it's virtual DOM. There are some really interesting ideas in there but they are deeply buried in the implementation of the React framework.
However, it's possible to implement just the virtual DOM and diff algorithm on it's own as a set of independent modules.
| // Initialize the Sass variables and partials used in this project. | |
| // Set the legacy IE support variables. We override the default values set by | |
| // the compass/support partial, but let styles-ie8.scss override these values. | |
| $legacy-support-for-ie6 : false !default; | |
| $legacy-support-for-ie7 : false !default; // Note the use of !default. | |
| $legacy-support-for-ie8 : false !default; | |
| // Partials to be shared with all .scss files. |