[shooly]

> loading times

What does React have to do with loading times of a page? React does not contribute to that at all other than having to download the JS runtime, which with Preact is 3KB.

> You cannot argue that React is extremely heavy and also adds a lot of time between first render

Yes you can! In no world would React itself add enough render time to make people navigate back, even if running on a computer from the 90s!

[Skinney]

React itself, or Preact for that matter, is just the baseline. You still need the application itself, which in every application I’ve worked on is quite a bit bigger than the framework itself.

So you need to download the app, maybe have that app perform some fetch requests, then have the app generate html to show to the user. This is going to be slower than just retriving the resulting html directly.

If you’re in a place with unreliable or plain out bad signal, the difference will be quite noticeable.