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by cocktailpeanuts 3354 days ago
Does "minimal" really matter when you'll probably take this and run this through all kinds of code bureaucracy (powered by NPM) which will end up with probably like 1MB of JS files?

Also on top of that you'll probably include bunch of 3rd party javascript that wastes tons of user traffic, such as ads, analytics, etc.

I'm being half sarcastic half realistic. When was the last time you cared about 2KB reduction in your CSS files? If you did, you're probably focusing on the wrong things. The only people who should be thinking about these size reduction is sites on a scale of Google or Facebook or Amazon where every kb matters in terms of their operational cost. But these companies probably roll their own.

So who is the "minimal" selling point really for?