Interacting with 3rd party plugins - component lifecycle methods?

[BartAdv]

Hello,

Would it be possible to have some set of helpers (something like React' component lifecycle hooks) for working with third party plugins? Say I've got some super-duper grid which I just want to render and interact with (push the data into). What would be needed is:

• some sort of initialization hook (to allow 3rd party code do the DOM work)
• having the diff for that component always return empty patch, so that this part of DOM is fully under 3rd party control (probably just drawing empty div every time would work)
• some hook which would allow to run some effects basing on a state change (this would allow to update the 3rd party plugin)
• obtaining real DOM node of component in event handlers

[BartAdv]

Though, in order to keep things nice and minimalistic, I'm gonna check if such integration is feasible without any changes to core...

[BartAdv]

I see there are some big things going on at the moment, closing