diff --git a/bench/real-browser.js b/bench/real-browser.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f10e112
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bench/real-browser.js
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+// Real-browser benchmark (Playwright Chromium): @choojs/html vs µhtml v5,
+// same create/update scenarios as bench/render.js but with native DOM.
+// nanohtml v1 is CJS-only and can't be import-mapped, so it only appears
+// in the happy-dom bench.
+//
+// node bench/real-browser.js
+
+import { chromium } from 'playwright'
+import { startServer } from '../test/e2e/serve.js'
+
+const srv = await startServer()
+const browser = await chromium.launch()
+const page = await browser.newPage()
+
+const PAGE = `
+
+
+`
+
+await page.route('**/bench-page', (route) => route.fulfill({ contentType: 'text/html', body: PAGE }))
+await page.goto(srv.origin + '/bench-page')
+
+const results = await page.evaluate(async () => {
+ const { default: html } = await import('@choojs/html')
+ const { default: morph } = await import('@choojs/html/morph')
+ const { html: uhtml, render: urender } = await import('uhtml')
+
+ const ROWS = 100
+ const data = (tick) => Array.from({ length: ROWS }, (_, i) => ({
+ id: i, label: 'row ' + i + ' rev ' + tick, selected: i === tick % ROWS
+ }))
+
+ const bench = (fn) => {
+ let t = 0
+ const warmupEnd = performance.now() + 200
+ while (performance.now() < warmupEnd) fn(t++)
+ let ops = 0
+ const start = performance.now()
+ const end = start + 1000
+ while (performance.now() < end) { fn(t++); ops++ }
+ return Math.round((ops / (performance.now() - start)) * 1000)
+ }
+
+ const ourTable = (rows) => html`${rows.map((r) => html`| ${r.id} | ${r.label} |
`)}
`
+ const uTable = (rows) => uhtml`${rows.map((r) => uhtml`| ${r.id} | ${r.label} |
`)}
`
+
+ const out = {}
+ out['@choojs/html create'] = bench((t) => ourTable(data(t)))
+ out['uhtml v5 create (fresh container)'] = bench((t) => {
+ const c = document.createElement('div')
+ urender(c, uTable(data(t)))
+ })
+
+ const live = ourTable(data(0))
+ document.body.appendChild(live)
+ out['@choojs/html + nanomorph update'] = bench((t) => morph(live, ourTable(data(t))))
+ live.remove()
+
+ const c = document.createElement('div')
+ document.body.appendChild(c)
+ out['uhtml v5 update (in place)'] = bench((t) => urender(c, uTable(data(t))))
+ c.remove()
+
+ return out
+})
+
+console.log('\nreal Chromium — 100-row table, ops/s:')
+for (const [name, ops] of Object.entries(results)) {
+ console.log(' ' + name.padEnd(38) + String(ops).padStart(8) + ' ops/s')
+}
+console.log()
+
+await browser.close()
+await srv.close()
diff --git a/bench/render.js b/bench/render.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..986867d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bench/render.js
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+// Rendering benchmarks: @choojs/html vs nanohtml v1 vs µhtml.
+//
+// npm run bench
+//
+// Two environments:
+// - server: pure string rendering in Node (no DOM at all)
+// - browser-path: DOM construction in happy-dom. Caveat: happy-dom is a
+// JS DOM, so absolute numbers are not real-browser numbers — but all
+// contenders pay the same DOM tax, so the relative ordering is
+// indicative of template-engine overhead.
+//
+// Scenarios: "create" builds a fresh 100-row table per iteration;
+// "update" re-renders the same live tree with new data each iteration
+// (choo-style engines build fresh + morph, µhtml updates holes in place).
+
+import { createRequire } from 'node:module'
+const require = createRequire(import.meta.url)
+
+const ROWS = 100
+const DURATION_MS = 500
+const WARMUP_MS = 100
+
+function data (tick) {
+ const rows = new Array(ROWS)
+ for (let i = 0; i < ROWS; i++) {
+ rows[i] = { id: i, label: 'row ' + i + ' rev ' + tick, selected: i === tick % ROWS }
+ }
+ return rows
+}
+
+function bench (name, fn) {
+ let t = performance.now()
+ const warmupEnd = t + WARMUP_MS
+ let tick = 0
+ while (performance.now() < warmupEnd) fn(tick++)
+
+ let ops = 0
+ const start = performance.now()
+ const end = start + DURATION_MS
+ while (performance.now() < end) {
+ fn(tick++)
+ ops++
+ }
+ const elapsed = performance.now() - start
+ const opsSec = Math.round((ops / elapsed) * 1000)
+ console.log(' ' + name.padEnd(34) + String(opsSec).padStart(8) + ' ops/s')
+ return opsSec
+}
+
+// ---------- server (string) rendering ----------
+
+console.log('\nserver rendering — %d-row table to string:', ROWS)
+{
+ const { default: ourHtml } = await import('@choojs/html/server')
+ const nano = require('nanohtml') // main entry is the server renderer
+
+ const table = (html, rows) => html`${rows.map((r) => html`| ${r.id} | ${r.label} |
`)}
`
+
+ bench('@choojs/html (server)', (t) => String(table(ourHtml, data(t))))
+ bench('nanohtml v1 (server)', (t) => String(table(nano, data(t))))
+}
+
+// ---------- browser-path rendering (happy-dom) ----------
+
+const { Window } = await import('happy-dom')
+const win = new Window()
+globalThis.window = win
+globalThis.document = win.document
+// µhtml touches DOM constructors as ambient globals at import time
+for (const name of [
+ 'DocumentFragment', 'HTMLElement', 'SVGElement', 'Element', 'Node',
+ 'Text', 'Comment', 'Range', 'MutationObserver', 'customElements',
+ 'requestAnimationFrame', 'cancelAnimationFrame'
+]) {
+ if (!(name in globalThis) && name in win) globalThis[name] = win[name]
+}
+
+const { default: ourBrowserHtml } = await import('@choojs/html/browser')
+const { default: morph } = await import('@choojs/html/morph')
+const nanoBrowser = require('nanohtml/lib/browser.js')
+const { html: uhtml, render: urender } = await import('uhtml')
+
+const table = (html, rows) => html`${rows.map((r) => html`| ${r.id} | ${r.label} |
`)}
`
+
+console.log('\nbrowser-path create — fresh %d-row table per iteration (happy-dom):', ROWS)
+bench('@choojs/html (cached templates)', (t) => table(ourBrowserHtml, data(t)))
+bench('nanohtml v1 (hyperx runtime)', (t) => table(nanoBrowser, data(t)))
+bench('uhtml v5 (fresh container)', (t) => {
+ const c = document.createElement('div')
+ urender(c, uhtml`${data(t).map((r) => uhtml`| ${r.id} | ${r.label} |
`)}
`)
+})
+
+console.log('\nbrowser-path update — re-render same live tree (happy-dom):')
+{
+ const live = table(ourBrowserHtml, data(0))
+ document.body.appendChild(live)
+ bench('@choojs/html + nanomorph', (t) => morph(live, table(ourBrowserHtml, data(t))))
+ document.body.removeChild(live)
+}
+{
+ const live = table(nanoBrowser, data(0))
+ document.body.appendChild(live)
+ bench('nanohtml v1 + nanomorph', (t) => morph(live, table(nanoBrowser, data(t))))
+ document.body.removeChild(live)
+}
+{
+ const c = document.createElement('div')
+ document.body.appendChild(c)
+ const view = (t) => uhtml`${data(t).map((r) => uhtml`| ${r.id} | ${r.label} |
`)}
`
+ bench('uhtml v5 (keyed holes, in place)', (t) => urender(c, view(t)))
+ document.body.removeChild(c)
+}
+
+console.log('\ncaveat: happy-dom numbers are indicative (same DOM tax for all), not real-browser numbers.\n')
diff --git a/docs/v8.md b/docs/v8.md
index 949504c..e5b8a02 100644
--- a/docs/v8.md
+++ b/docs/v8.md
@@ -44,9 +44,21 @@ everything new lives under `packages/`.
wildcard decode, decoded state.href
- [x] Phase 2 (core): browser renderer rewrite, `@choojs/component`,
zero-build counter example, full-app integration test in happy-dom
-- [ ] Phase 2 (remaining): adoption-style hydration with mismatch
- warnings, Playwright suite in a real browser, benchmarks vs
- nanohtml v1 / µhtml
+- [x] Phase 2 (tail): adoption-style hydration with mismatch warnings
+ (`@choojs/html/hydrate`, wired into `mount()`), real-browser
+ Playwright e2e (zero-build page, SSR-then-hydrate page, adoption
+ proof; CI job included), benchmarks vs nanohtml v1 / µhtml
+
+## Benchmarks (2026-09, 100-row table, `npm run bench` / `bench:browser`)
+
+Real Chromium: @choojs/html creates fresh trees ~12% faster than µhtml v5
+(3.5k vs 3.1k ops/s) — the parse-once/clone design pays off in native DOM.
+µhtml updates in place ~5x faster than our fresh-tree + nanomorph loop
+(3.0k vs 0.6k ops/s): that is choo's architectural cost, mitigated in real
+apps by @choojs/component caching (proxy nodes skip unchanged subtrees),
+and the number to beat if Phase 3 explores keyed-hole optimizations.
+Server string rendering is on par with nanohtml v1 (~13k ops/s, within
+6%). happy-dom numbers in bench/render.js are indicative only.
- [ ] Phase 3: v8 wiring (`toStream`, devtools, codemod). Includes the
answer to choojs/choo#653 (async/lazy routes): route handlers may
resolve lazily via native import(); browser renders previous tree
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index fa77d2e..f0669d2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -13,12 +13,15 @@
"scripts": {
"test": "node --test packages/core/test/ packages/html/test/ packages/component/test/",
"test:e2e": "node --test test/e2e/",
- "bench": "node bench/render.js"
+ "bench": "node bench/render.js",
+ "bench:browser": "node bench/real-browser.js"
},
"repository": "choojs/choo",
"license": "MIT",
"devDependencies": {
"happy-dom": "^20.14.0",
- "playwright": "^1.63.0"
+ "nanohtml": "^1.10.0",
+ "playwright": "^1.63.0",
+ "uhtml": "^5.0.9"
}
}