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I see a lot of complaints about toy app size/complexity. There's definitely a judgement call to makes about app complexity when someone starts a project with a

by jwarren 10y ago

I see a lot of complaints about toy app size/complexity. There's definitely a judgement call to makes about app complexity when someone starts a project with a framework. I inevitably find that development in the middle/end of the project is substantially easier when using a good setup like React/Redux/etc or Angular, and changes are easier to make, whereas vanilla development is (relatively) substantially easier at the beginning of a project. Yeah, Hello World might be expensive in size, but when you've got a substantially complex and fast app for not much more size, you start to feel the real benefits.

glass-animal 10y ago
But what is Angular doing with that 200k (which is minified)? It doesn't seem like I should need to pull in the whole of Angular to make a component with a template. Granted, React is pretty big too, but other frameworks, like Riot.js, have shown that they can be much smaller. Then there's Polymer which gets smaller as web components roll out. In the competition again native apps, web apps have to load really, really fast. Their ability to run without installation is an advantage that needs to be maximized, an on potentially slow and high-latency mobile networks.