In complex web apps, DOM changes can be frequent. As a result, there are instances where your app might need to respond to a specific change to the DOM. For some time, the accepted way to look for changes to the DOM was by means of a feature called Mutation Events, which is now deprecated. The W3C-approved replacement for Mutation Events is the MutationObserver API, which is what I’ll be discussing in detail in this article.
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