Rendering serialized trees

I’m using preact in an electron-app. In electron the main-process and the rendering-process (= dom) are separate and communicated via json.

Right now I’m passing computing data in main and pass it to the render-process where preact will generate the tree and apply it to the DOM.

For simplicity, I would like to

1. do the preact-tree-building in the main-process
2. then serialize them to JSON
3. receive them in the browser-window and call render() to apply them to the DOM.

Questions

• Are h(…) trees serializable?
• Does preact perform worse if I pass the entire tree, where all components are resolved to their subtrees so that only html-elements are left, to render() every time?
• Does preact use keys or component-type to accelerate render()?

[developit]

No, it’ll be done as a plugin. It’s near the top of my todo list (finally!)

[fab1an]

Will the mutation-observers be included in undom-master?