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Discussion on: Stop Using React

 
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Marko A • Edited

Are you serious? You don't know a single site that ships few images that amount to few hundred KB? Just open any news site, open an average blog etc.

And regarding that 139KB (React 0.14.5 + React DOM) you mention from that URL, make it more like 97.5K (React 16.2.0 + React DOM) because who the hell ships React 0.14.5 these days? And those are not even gzipped sizes, but minified js only without gzip. That list you sent shows gzipped size of 31.8K which is more realistic. I mean, you turn on gzip right?

You have got to be trolling at this point and I'm just dumb for falling for it.

EDIT: Nice job editing your comment above this one so this comment kinda doesn't really fit as an answer...

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ender minyard • Edited

It's okay. You can stop using React whenever you feel like it.

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nrutledge

ender minyard is definitely trolling. This very page with a tiny handful of images is shipping nearly 100 kb of image data, which is 3x more data than gzipped React + React DOM.

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ender minyard • Edited

I'm very glad that you made an account to comment on my post. Welcome to dev.to 🤠

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nrutledge

Thank you. It has been fun reading through your article and everyone's comments. I like when people have differing opinion. Keeps things interesting. :)

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