diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/modules/all.mjs b/app/assets/javascripts/modules/all.mjs
index a62daad45..33af699f4 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/modules/all.mjs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/modules/all.mjs
@@ -6,11 +6,16 @@
 //
 // Exported items will be added to the window.GOVUK namespace.
 // For example, `export { Frontend }` will assign `Frontend` to `window.Frontend`
+
+// GOVUK Frontend modules
 import Header from 'govuk-frontend/components/header/header';
 import Details from 'govuk-frontend/components/details/details';
 import Button from 'govuk-frontend/components/button/button';
 import Radios from 'govuk-frontend/components/radios/radios';
 
+// Modules from 3rd party vendors
+import morphdom from 'morphdom';
+
 /**
  * TODO: Ideally this would be a NodeList.prototype.forEach polyfill
  * This seems to fail in IE8, requires more investigation.
@@ -62,6 +67,13 @@ var Frontend = {
   "initAll": initAll
 }
 
-export {
-  Frontend
+var vendor = {
+  "morphdom": morphdom
+}
+
+// The exported object will be assigned to window.GOVUK in our production code
+// (bundled into an IIFE by RollupJS)
+export {
+  Frontend,
+  vendor
 }
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/updateContent.js b/app/assets/javascripts/updateContent.js
index 85cfa61e5..2e4bc4758 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/updateContent.js
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/updateContent.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "use strict";
 
   var queues = {};
+  var morphdom = global.GOVUK.vendor.morphdom;
   var defaultInterval = 2000;
   var interval = 0;
 
@@ -10,18 +11,10 @@
       1000
   ));
 
-  var getRenderer = $component => {
-    var key = $component.data('key'); // use closure to retain key when component is replaced
-    return response => {
-      $component = $(
-        global.domdiff(
-          $component.parent().get(0),
-          [$component.get(0)],
-          [$(response[key]).get(0)]
-        )[0]
-      );
-    };
-  };
+  var getRenderer = $component => response => morphdom(
+    $component.get(0),
+    $(response[$component.data('key')]).get(0)
+  );
 
   var getQueue = resource => (
     queues[resource] = queues[resource] || []
diff --git a/gulpfile.js b/gulpfile.js
index 68964ea9d..fa1128fc1 100644
--- a/gulpfile.js
+++ b/gulpfile.js
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ const javascripts = () => {
       paths.npm + 'hogan.js/dist/hogan-3.0.2.js',
       paths.npm + 'jquery/dist/jquery.min.js',
       paths.npm + 'query-command-supported/dist/queryCommandSupported.min.js',
-      paths.npm + 'domdiff/min.js',
       paths.npm + 'timeago/jquery.timeago.js',
       paths.npm + 'textarea-caret/index.js',
       paths.npm + 'cbor-js/cbor.js'
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 726b41cfd..418b73fae 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
     "@babel/preset-env": "7.4.2",
     "cbor-js": "0.1.0",
     "del": "5.1.0",
-    "domdiff": "2.2.2",
     "govuk_frontend_toolkit": "8.1.0",
     "govuk-elements-sass": "3.1.2",
     "govuk-frontend": "2.13.0",
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@
     "hogan": "1.0.2",
     "jquery": "3.5.0",
     "leaflet": "1.6.0",
+    "morphdom": "2.6.1",
     "query-command-supported": "1.0.0",
     "rollup": "1.23.1",
     "sass": "1.32.7",
diff --git a/tests/javascripts/updateContent.test.js b/tests/javascripts/updateContent.test.js
index c1496b4b7..d965906b8 100644
--- a/tests/javascripts/updateContent.test.js
+++ b/tests/javascripts/updateContent.test.js
@@ -31,13 +31,12 @@ beforeAll(() => {
 
   $.ajax.mockImplementation(() => jqueryAJAXReturnObj);
 
-  // using require to execute the version we use in our our frontend build here can't add
-  // the domdiff variable to this scope like it does when executed in browsers because
-  // that version doesn't export it
-  // we use CommonJS version instead because it does (as the default property)
-  // see https://nodejs.org/en/knowledge/getting-started/what-is-require/ for more info
-  // also, we're not a browser so we need to manually attach domdiff to window
-  window.domdiff = require('domdiff/cjs').default;
+  // RollupJS assigns our bundled module code, including morphdom, to window.GOVUK.
+  // morphdom is assigned to its vendor property so we need to copy that here for the updateContent
+  // code to pick it up.
+  window.GOVUK.vendor = {
+    morphdom: require('morphdom')
+  };
   require('../../app/assets/javascripts/updateContent.js');
 
 });