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

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