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CSR rendering is fundamentally great. when done right, it enables complete separation of concerns between the frontend and the backend, and it will vastly outpe

CSR rendering is fundamentally great. when done right, it enables complete separation of concerns between the frontend and the backend, and it will vastly outperform the SSR approach in terms of performance >react-dom is 130kB the goal of these tools is not building performant applications. the goal is enabling barely skilled laborers to churn out disposable shit as quickly and cheaply as possible >I'm on twitter reading web stuff do yourself a favor and don't.

ratww 4y ago
Exactly. And if one really needs a slimmer version of React, there's always Preact [1] which is 3k-4k gzipped and has pretty much the same API. Of course, in real life the 130k of React is far from a problem. The React code is (more often than not) dwarfed by the application code itself. [1] http://preactjs.com http://preactjs.com