[sod]

If you care about javascript bundle size you have to avoid everything that comes from google (besides angular core & common of course). Material, animations, cdk, ... everything is just horrendously over engineered and nothing optimized for size. E.g. just look a sourcecode for material checkbox! https://github.com/angular/components/blob/master/src/materi...

Don't get me wrong, I like those bundles - and I like my frameworks over engineered. They take care of edge cases. And if I'd write a CMS I'd be all over those packages. But if your constraint is bundle size, you have to avoid them.

[aabbcc1241]

Agree. My last experience with angular (and ionic in particular) is it's hard to archive both good DX and UX.

There are tools that produce smaller bundle size (e.g. stencil and react) but angular has much better DX.

Svelte maybe better but not used it in production yet.