Game of Life in React/Redux, help in increasing performance

Question

I am working on a version of The Game of Life in react/redux/javascript, whilst i have it working the performance is horrible.

Here is a link to the running game He

Answer 1

So in the end never got the performance to a satisfactory level using the DOM and html components. So i re-wrote the grid code to render all the cells using HTM5 Canvas and the performance is no longer an issue, in fact it now renders quite happily on the iPhone.