[owebmaster]

> you don't need to send 100kb+ of JS over the wire to build a static site in react

It is telling that the blog of the fw creator ships 500kb of JS/CSS/HTML to display text on a screen.

> it's really nice to just have one tool that can do everything (static HTML-only, static with JS, SPA, SSR)

WebComponents (+lit-html)

[danabramov]

Pretty much none of that is blocking first paint. Disable JS and see that my site works just fine. I have interactive examples on some pages but all the extra stuff is just “nice-to-have”.

Also I’m not a framework creator.

[perilunar]

Yep. 411 KB of JS (126 KB minified). 525 KB of fonts! 40KB of HTML. 1.1MB (704 KB minified) total for approximately 4.3 KB of actual text.

That's a crap:content ratio of 256:1

[danabramov]

Disable JS and see that my site loads just fine. Fonts are nice-to-have. Interactive examples (on other pages) are nice-to-have. None of this is render-blocking.

[perilunar]

It's still half a megabyte with JS turned off. For page of text. With no images.

[azemetre]

Wow this is a great metric to use.