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Re:Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating by alexbecker on Monday September 19, 2016 @05:22PM (#12534856)
I believe they are complaining about the ~150kb minified filesize, rather than the API surface area.
Re:Why Learning Angular 2 Was Excruciating by barryhoodlum on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:41PM (#12535374)
It's under 40kb gzipped. If that's a sizeable percentage of your total JS code, you probably didn't need React in the first place.