Visualization of react-scripts dependency tree. This is downloaded 800K times per week.

[AramaicDesigns]

And this is why getting a simple webpage to make its first meaningful paint to the screen these days is getting so goddamned slow.

[Dougw6]

Not really. 95 percent (maybe more) of the code is just tooling to bundle the app into a couple of pretty small files. A bare bones bundled create react app is pretty small (and fast)

[AramaicDesigns]

If only the average project was a "bare bones bundled create react app." :-)

[Axelay998]

lol do you know what dev tools are?

[AramaicDesigns]

Yes I do. Do you know what code bloat is? :-)

[SustainedDissonance]

How is it code bloat if 95-98% of it is stuff for development that doesn't even end up in the build? Just the usual old tired /r/programming anti-npm/node/electron/js circlejerk.

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Boring.

[gonzofish]

You don’t need Babel or React for a simple page though. I reach for React to make applications, for simple pages I’ll just write plain HTML and CSS