alt Hacker News> React doesn't provide a way to explicitly bind to properties and events of DOM elements
We can nitpick this point because react has had a ref API for at least 5 years now. Given a ref, all DOM API are available. For events, SyntheticEvent will refer to a native event if it exists.
The SyntheticEvent abstracts vendor discrepancy. Under the hood, react can apply some optimization too.
https://legacy.reactjs.org/docs/events.html https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/components/common#reac...
The synthetic event also adds its own abstractions though. For example, the `onChange` handler in React behaves very differently to the native DOM `change` event.