[ht85]

I don't know what you're referring to, if it's an actual case you've seen, or if people talking about React huge size gave you the idea that it behaved like that.

In any case this is an implementation problem. React base is around 30kb after min + gzip, and executing the code should take hundredth of seconds on page load unless you're on a really bad phone.

Maybe you've seen this behavior because of components designed to perform one or several high latency requests before they display data? If that's the case, then it's easily fixable by providing the initial data along with the page, or improve latency by many means.

[jacobsenscott]

It is an actual case I've seen, more than once. I didn't debug it, I just removed it. But the initial load and render of react components is not fast. Can you point me to a live site where it is (and serving an initial server side rendered page is cheating).