Today I Learned

Using DocumentFragment does the trick because it isn't part of the active document tree structure.

This means it doesn't interact with the main document until mounted.

Hence, it doesn't impact the performance when changes occur to its contents.

// Setup
const outlet = document.getElementById('#myList');
const fragment = new DocumentFragment();
const results = fetchResults(); // returns Array<Result>

We then go through each result and prepare it properly:

results.map((result, index) => {
    const li = document.createElement('li');
    li.textContent = result;
    li.classList.add('result');
    // We append to the DocumentFragment
    fragment.appendChild(li);
 });

Finally, we append the end result to the list:

outlet.appendChild(fragment);

If we were to append each item to the list outlet within the map above, it would have triggered a repaint/reflow every time we performed the action.