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It's hard, in that most sites/webapps aren't hand-crafted components... I'm waist deep in a web application now, that's very difficult to prune... It has jQueryUI AND Bootstrap controls, not to mention a dozen plugins for each. It's a significant mess to say the least. The main .JS min/merged weighs in at over 1mb (down about a mb since I min/merged them) that doesn't include site js, just the libraries (not including jquery's base).

Of course, it's easy to clear that size with some big full-screen splash images, which are more and more common... it is kind of depressing. I really appreciate the work the Polymer team has done in creating paper components, and would love to see something closer to that for React as a base, most of the Paper/Component bases I've seen are still relatively heavy, with React-Bootstrap being one of the better ones.

It's not easy coming into something that's already in place, and harder to reign in the proliferation of modules that get added in.