> Unlike what a lot of people like to believe not every spa runs 20 megs of js on page load
This is not a new take, it's exactly what every die-hard SPA dev says. While 20MB is an exaggeration, the average web page size has ballooned in the past decade from ~500KB in 2010 to around 4MB today. And the vast majority of those pages is just text, there is usually nothing really interactive in them that would require a client-side framework.
Others will say 2MB, 4MB is not that bad, but that just shows how far out of touch with the reality of mobile internet they are. Start measuring the actual download speeds your users are getting and you'll be terribly disappointed even in major urban centers.
This is not a new take, it's exactly what every die-hard SPA dev says. While 20MB is an exaggeration, the average web page size has ballooned in the past decade from ~500KB in 2010 to around 4MB today. And the vast majority of those pages is just text, there is usually nothing really interactive in them that would require a client-side framework.
Others will say 2MB, 4MB is not that bad, but that just shows how far out of touch with the reality of mobile internet they are. Start measuring the actual download speeds your users are getting and you'll be terribly disappointed even in major urban centers.