[sapling-ginger]

For an article about "lightweight javascript", it mentions the bundle sizes of its examples exactly zero times. Probably because the livewire bundle alone is like 40kb, comparable to react+react-dom's 45kb.

[CharlesW]

Vue 3 is 16kb, or 27kb if you use everything. It feels like "heavy" refers primarily to cognitive load (a legit factor, of course).

[pier25]

A big difference though is that the Livewire lib is downloaded only once and includes Alpine for client side stuff.

With React you still need a ton of JS with components and other libs.

[fijiaarone]

45kb (zipped!) for document.createElement() with a babel transpiler build process.

[fijiaarone]

Excuse me, I forgot that react-dom also ships with an implementation of document.appendChild()