react-ssd1306 VS bundlejs

It’s often cheaper to couple things tightly. Abstractions and interfaces have costs. However, they also have benefits. Perhaps React and Preact is one such example.

React is a tiny fully agnostic library that does components, props, hooks and all that jazz. You can use it anywhere, from DOM to CLI. To tie it to DOM, a separate library exists—named, unimaginatively, ReactDOM—and that’s where the 100KB heft comes in.

Preact is the opposite: smaller, but coupled to DOM. The architecture probably doesn’t facilitate cool stuff like render components to embedded LCD[0], and even to do SSR you would have to add extra libraries.

[0] https://github.com/doodlewind/react-ssd1306/blob/master/docs...

React 16 is about 5 KB uncompressed, it's a tiny library that does very little can be used to render to anything from a DOM to a native GUI to a dot matrix LCD screen (https://github.com/doodlewind/react-ssd1306/blob/master/docs...). Together with React-DOM it is about 100 KB, 30 KB gzipped (DOM library is bulky in part because it needs to support all of the default HTML and SVG elements). It's not supposed to be amazing at anything except what it does, build complex or simple stuff it is up to you.

Package Size Checker

I was closing out some long lived issues over on bundlejs, when issue #50 reminded me of the ongoing debate about how bundlejs should handle the ESM and CJS packages.

Still, I'm not really sure about its dependencies: it lists react and @tanstack/react-query (as opposed to @tanstack/query-core) and bundlejs reports 124KB gzipped. Also, while using it, you still need to refer to their react docs (that documentation is really good and has a lot of examples) but not everyone will be thrilled about checking a react documentation when they're using an angular package.

It's somewhere in between.

React as a lib and architecture _is_ platform-agnostic. The core logic is defined in the `react-reconciler` package. It contains all the implementation of rendering components, diffing trees, managing state, and running effects, as well as all the "Suspense" implementation.

However, the way `react-reconciler` works is that it's built _into_ each platform-specific renderer implementation. So, the size of `react-dom` is actually the size of `react-reconciler` + all the DOM-specific behavior.

A quick check of https://bundlejs.com/?q=react-reconciler suggests it's about 100K minified. https://bundlejs.com/?q=react-dom is 138K, so that tells me that the DOM-specific logic is 38K.

React Hook Form has no dependencies and a small bundle size. It has a gzipped bundle size of 12.12KB, according to bundlejs.

These are shameless plugs, but https://bundlejs.com and https://inthistweet.app. I built both tools specifically because I didn't find any other tools that solved the problems I kept running into.

Try https://bundlejs.com/ to see

bundlejs (pronounced bundle js) is a quick and easy way to treeshake, bundle, minify, and compress (in either gzip or brotli) your typescript, javascript, jsx and npm projects, while receiving the total bundles' file size.

Don't know of any but was going thru Adam Wathan's twits and replies. Found, https://github.com/okikio/bundle Looks medium sized.