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PATTERNS FOR MEMORY EFFICIENT DOM MANIPULATION WITH MODERN VANILLA JAVASCRIPT

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The DOM allows developers to interact with and manipulate web documents as a tree of nodes using APIs like querySelector(), createElement(), and appendChild(). Efficient DOM manipulation can improve performance by preferring methods such as textContent over innerText and using insertAdjacentHTML over innerHTML. Proper memory and event management, along with performance profiling, are also necessary in performance-sensitive scenarios especially.