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Code diagram of DOM tree traversal using firstElementChild and children arrays
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Ditching querySelector: How Native DOM Traversal Builds Bulletproof JS Apps

Your CSS selectors just snapped again during a refactor. One dev's radical shift to DOM traversal methods promises code that won't crumble under change.

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