[hajile]

React has one up-front size for rendering code whether you use 1 component or 10,000 components.

Svelte and Lit rendering code size just keeps going up, and up, and up....

You can argue about which is better, but this kind of naive size comparison is disingenuous.

[afavour]

While it’s true that Svelte and Lit can grow in size dependent on project there’s no world in which even large projects get close to the base level of the React runtime.

[troupo]

Reddit rewrote a small part of their website with web components using lit. 100+ requests and over a megabyte of Javascript to render a side menu.

Because they probably did the "several runtimes don't matter" thing, and every tiny component loads the full lit runtime

[afavour]

I have no idea about that but if the figures you’re providing are correct it’s pretty obvious the answer is that they did it wrong. There is nothing in the web component API that would require 100+ requests nor several MB of JS, especially when you’re in control of every step in the process!

[spankalee]

> every tiny component loads the full lit runtime

This is just not true.

[troupo]

Why does it need 100+ requests and over a megabyte of JS then?

Edit: when it was "unveiled" the sum total of JS was 178 requests totaling 1.37 MB: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1777404560316707052

[spankalee]

I don't know, but it only loads one copy of Lit.

[troupo]

Thank you, good to know

[mdhb]

Only if you are doing it wrong. https://lit.dev/docs/tools/publishing/