in the case of the mandadin one it was built with .NET5 so .NET6 trimming (also named tree-shaking or AoT) it should be smaller
While I was once against having that much of a payload I came to terms with it recently; I've been doing frontend applications for a while with different clients and employers (with teams from all sizes) and the websites made there with classic frameworks weren't precisely light, so depending who is your audience I wouldn't think it's that bad of a deal. I still think most of the size of a website can come from un-optimized images and other resources
Informative post. One question, how large is a minimal client WASM app?
It can vary from what minimal is your minimal but for example these two minimally simple websites are around 1mb
in the case of the mandadin one it was built with .NET5 so .NET6 trimming (also named tree-shaking or AoT) it should be smaller
While I was once against having that much of a payload I came to terms with it recently; I've been doing frontend applications for a while with different clients and employers (with teams from all sizes) and the websites made there with classic frameworks weren't precisely light, so depending who is your audience I wouldn't think it's that bad of a deal. I still think most of the size of a website can come from un-optimized images and other resources
also another one for what is worth I'm working on a music player and when built for production the (very minimal web app) is around ~318kb (.NET6)
you can check the project here
Fun.Blazor.Sample
This is a really really minimal Fun.Blazor sample, this should get you started.
For more information visit the project's website