Components are Pure Overhead

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  • ivi

    Lighweight Embeddable Web UI Library

  • And the answer was: it depends. The Virtual DOM library I tested, ivi, had no issues handling more components. But Lit and Svelte were dramatically worse. They scaled back to almost React levels of performance as I broke them down to more components. All their non-VDOM performance benefits basically disappeared.

  • Svelte

    Cybernetically enhanced web apps

  • And the answer was: it depends. The Virtual DOM library I tested, ivi, had no issues handling more components. But Lit and Svelte were dramatically worse. They scaled back to almost React levels of performance as I broke them down to more components. All their non-VDOM performance benefits basically disappeared.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • React

    The library for web and native user interfaces.

  • And the answer was: it depends. The Virtual DOM library I tested, ivi, had no issues handling more components. But Lit and Svelte were dramatically worse. They scaled back to almost React levels of performance as I broke them down to more components. All their non-VDOM performance benefits basically disappeared.

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