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Original URLhttps://dev.to/efpage/getelementby-destructuring-1ajc

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This page criticizes the verbosity of JavaScript's `getElementById()` and similar DOM methods, highlighting the bandwidth waste and cumbersome syntax. The author proposes using a Proxy object as a solution to simplify element access. The `getById` Proxy allows destructuring assignment to retrieve HTML elements by their IDs more concisely. Instead of traditional lengthy method calls, developers can elegantly extract multiple elements using object destructuring syntax. This approach reduces code verbosity while improving readability and reducing data transfer overhead.

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