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> “30 kilobytes for React” This is just not even close to being true.


The compressed size is 31 kb, and other frameworks are smaller.

https://gist.github.com/Restuta/cda69e50a853aa64912d


There's 3kb Preact with almost identical API.


So what's the other 27KB+ for?


Fiber, support fo async rendering, suspense, hooks. A different VDOM algorithm.


Better error handling and messaging...




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