One of the great things about React is that it doesn't require the DOM as a dependency, which means it is possible to render a React application on the server and send the

React has implemented a browser-independent events and DOM system for performance and cross-browser compatibility reasons. We took the opportunity to clean up a few rough edges

SyntheticEvent Your event handlers will be passed instances of SyntheticEvent, a cross-browser wrapper

setProps void setProps( object nextProps, [function callback] )