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Re:Show HN: A no-build fullstack SSR TypeScript web framework by nosefurhairdo on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:12PM (#43041431)
Should point out that "no bundling" has serious trade-offs. From https://vite.dev/guide/why.html#why-bundle-for-production

> Why Bundle for Production

> Even though native ESM is now widely supported, shipping unbundled ESM in production is still inefficient (even with HTTP/2) due to the additional network round trips caused by nested imports. To get the optimal loading performance in production, it is still better to bundle your code with tree-shaking, lazy-loading and common chunk splitting (for better caching).

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Re:Show HN: A no-build fullstack SSR TypeScript web framework by thesephi on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:57PM (#43053539)
Completely agreed! And "trade-offs" is the perfect keyword here. In exchange for zero cognitive load (ie. complexities in managing build config & consistency between dev & prod setups), we get a bunch of ESM, rendering the performance of our app dependent on browser loading optimizations (among other things).

I'll try to benchmark this "no build" setup on mdeium-large codebases, also comparing between different use cases (e.g. blog-like website vs rich-interactive web app such as "online photo editing") and let's discover the pros and cons of everything :)

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