[leeoniya]

right.

perhaps it's possible with Preact|Inferno + SSR, i dunno. but this [1] seems to use babel/webpack and a bunch of other stuff. it's not clear to me from that post how minimal the end result can actually be.

the thing is, React's ecosystem is also to blame, it is so full of ready-to-go-do-everything popular components with inefficient code that cannot be tree-shaken, that lack of care in bundle evaluation is absolutely rampant. every imaginable feature is just some burned-out dev's `npm i` away, node_modules be damned.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/build-a-ssr...