The Document Object Model (DOM) has not always been the easiest technology to work with. We had old archaic APIs and, most of the time, they never lined up between browsers. But, within the last couple of years, we have gotten some nice APIs to do the following: grab elements with ease, build in-memory hierarchies for fast attachment, and templates with DOM shadowing. All of these have led to a rich environment for making changes to the underlying nodes and creating a number of rich frontends without the need for libraries such as jQuery. In the following sections, we will see how working with these new APIs has helped us.