> If you want your application to become interactive on your users’ devices in under 5 seconds, can you afford to spend a fifth of that time just booting up Rea

> If you want your application to become interactive on your users’ devices in under 5 seconds, can you afford to spend a fifth of that time just booting up React? If you care about load time you should pick a framework because of the value it brings, rather than what it costs. That one second overhead might make your application code twice as efficient. For example Next.js and React will give you route based bundle splitting and navigation preloading for free. Yes, a vanilla JS app could implement the same, but requires a lot more boilerplate to achieve. So in practice most devs are more likely to skip that part and their lightweight no-framework app becomes a bloated mess.