# Mounting widget in raw template?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mounting-widget-in-raw-template/44400
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [Mai 17, 2016, 7:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mounting-widget-in-raw-template/44400 "2016-05-17T19:15:56Z")
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### Author: ![joebuhlig](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joebuhlig/32/193054_2.png) [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)
#### Post date: [Novembre 15, 2018, 2:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mounting-widget-in-raw-template/44400/9 "2018-11-15T14:32:49Z")

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> [@A tour of how the Widget (Virtual DOM) code in Discourse works](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-tour-of-how-the-widget-virtual-dom-code-in-discourse-works/40347/39):
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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.

Not a team member, but through my conversations with Robin on this I had the understanding that those raw templates render significantly quicker overall. It has to do with the sheer number of times the template is reused.

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