# A tour of how the Widget (Virtual DOM) code in Discourse works

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-tour-of-how-the-widget-virtual-dom-code-in-discourse-works/40347
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [29 februari 2016 om 20:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-tour-of-how-the-widget-virtual-dom-code-in-discourse-works/40347 "2016-02-29T20:18:39Z")
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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [12 mei 2016 om 21:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-tour-of-how-the-widget-virtual-dom-code-in-discourse-works/40347/39 "2016-05-12T21:58:54Z")

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You can’t embed a widget in a raw template. But don’t worry, we aren’t going to convert the topic list over. The gains over raw rendering for that part are negligible.

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