I'm building an application using Electron and I've found the majority of memory consumption occurs when instantiating new components. When using a UI framework

I'm building an application using Electron and I've found the majority of memory consumption occurs when instantiating new components. When using a UI framework like Material, this can happen frequently, such that the simple act of hovering over a menu and showing an indicator can cause an increase of 3 MB of RAM. I love Electron, it allows me to create applications in an intuitive way using a language meant for building UIs, rather than slapping a library on a native codebase, and I can deploy it wherever Chromium is supported, so I'd like to make it efficient, wherever possible. Two solutions I have found during my development: 1) Keep your components light. Most of what I used from Material can be done completely with raw HTML and CSS in a simpler fashion without much going on in terms of state, so I created my own components that serve my purposes. A lot of libraries and frameworks are heavy because they are used on webpages viewed by multiple different browsers and require complex logic to work across different environments. Electron sandboxes your code in Chromium + node, you code only for 1 browser engine, so I hope more devs take advantage of that fact. 2) Load what you know you need in the beginning, and keep your cache to a minimum. Most Electron apps do not have view transitions, they are built as SPAs. One of the downsides of this is that you need to be mindful of your cache since it is not cleared when you display a new component. Clearing the things that don't matter to the view or data has been essential in keeping my memory footprint small. With a large app that does many things and loads many views, I'm able to keep the RAM usage to under 200, most times around 150, which, while larger than something like Excel running idle, is a small price to pay to have intuitive design features and access to a large and constantly growing library of reusable components and packages.