I do hybrid canvas/DOM gamedev myself, and it's fine for overlaying a few pieces...

fenomas on Jan 31, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Game performance optimization – A practical exampl...

I do hybrid canvas/DOM gamedev myself, and it's fine for overlaying a few pieces of UI and styled text and so on. But when you have 30,000 of something like in TFA, there is no world where it makes sense to draw them via the DOM.