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by marknutter 3521 days ago
> React's surface area (compared to something like Angular or Ember) is so small

Sure, the core React library is small. But when do people ever just use the core library? Think of all the additional libraries and components in the React ecosystem that get used in projects. The footprint of the average React project ends up being just as large as the footprint of the average Angular or Ember project.