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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by ToucanLoucan on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @03:03PM (#43550280)
It's gonna sound elitist but every one of these confident assertions on the part of, for the purposes of discussion I'm assuming are defensive React developers, reinforces that a sizable contingent of the aforementioned developer community has no grasp whatsoever on the fundamentals of programming.

Hate me if you will, but holy fuck. "Downloading this code takes WAY more time than running it" with NO parameters whatsoever on what the code is doing is an absolutely ridiculous assertion.

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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by azemetre on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @03:16PM (#43550397)
Agreed. I don't think people realize that 5mb of a PNG is way different than 5mb of JS. The browser parsers that PNG way way faster than it parses JS.
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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by FridgeSeal on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @06:02PM (#43551790)
The PNG also doesn’t then go off and start pulling even more data down off the network.
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Re:Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button by Tadpole9181 on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @05:40PM (#43551611)
No, it comes across as if y'all are having a bad faith argument about something outside of your field of expertise...

Most React apps don't put an infinite loop in their components. The vast majority of the time it sets up initial state, maybe sets up a skeleton while loading some customer data, then shows a page with a few sections and a dozen inputs.

So "holy fuck" you should probably calm yourself down.

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