Sizes of JS frameworks, just minified + minified and gzipped, (React, Angular 2, Vue, Ember)

framework-sizes.md

Below is the list of modern JS frameworks and almost frameworks – React, Vue, Angular, Ember and others.

All files were downloaded from https://cdnjs.com and named accordingly. Output from ls command is stripped out (irrelevant stuff)

As-is (minified)

$ ls -lhS
566K Jan  4 22:03 angular2.min.js
563K Jan  4 22:05 angular2.0.0-beta.0-all.umd.min.js
486K Jan  4 21:50 ember.1.13.8.min.js
435K Jan  4 21:48 ember.2.2.0.min.js
205K Jan  4 22:06 angular2.0.0-beta.0-Rx.min.js
144K Jan  4 21:59 react-with-addons-0.14.5.min.js
143K Jan  4 21:46 angular.1.4.5.min.js
132K Jan  4 21:56 react-0.14.5.min.js
121K Jan  4 21:35 angular.1.3.2.min.js
5.3K Jan  4 22:00 redux-3.0.5.min.js
706B Jan  4 21:57 react-dom-0.14.5.min.js
63K  Oct 13 03:02 vue-2.0.3.min.js

# 2017
91K  Dec 27 12:24 react-dom-16.2.0.production.min.js
6.5K Dec 27 12:22 react-16.2.0.production.min.js

This gives us following approximations

Name	Size
Ember 2.2.0	435K
Ember 1.13.8	486K
Angular 2	566K
Angular 2 + Rx	766K
Angular 1.4.5	143K
Vue 2.4.2	58.8K
Inferno 1.2.2	48K
Preact 7.2.0	16K
React 0.14.5 + React DOM	133K
React 0.14.5 + React DOM + Redux	139K
React 16.2.0 + React DOM	97.5K

GZipped and minified (plain output)

$ gzip -r .
$ ls -lhS
123K Jan  4 22:11 ember.1.13.8.min.js.gz
119K Jan  4 22:11 angular2.0.0-beta.0-all.umd.min.js.gz
111K Jan  4 22:11 ember.2.2.0.min.js.gz
111K Jan  4 22:11 angular2.min.js.gz
51K Jan  4 22:11 angular.1.4.5.min.js.gz
45K Jan  4 22:11 angular.1.3.2.min.js.gz
42K Jan  4 22:11 react-with-addons-0.14.5.min.js.gz
39K Jan  4 22:11 react-0.14.5.min.js.gz
32K Jan  4 22:11 angular2.0.0-beta.0-Rx.min.js.gz
1.9K Jan  4 22:11 redux-3.0.5.min.js.gz
455B Jan  4 22:11 react-dom-0.14.5.min.js.gz
23K  Oct 13 03:02 vue-2.0.3.min.js.gz

#2017
29K Dec 27 12:24 react-dom-16.2.0.production.min.js.gz
2.8K Dec 27 12:22 react-16.2.0.production.min.js.gz
63K Dec 27 13:18 aurelia-core-1.0.2.min.js.gz

Approximations for GZipped versions

Name	Size
Ember 2.2.0	111K
Ember 1.13.8	123K
Angular 2	111K
Angular 2 + Rx	143K
Angular 1.4.5	51K
React 0.14.5 + React DOM	40K
React 0.14.5 + React DOM + Redux	42K
React 15.3.0 + React DOM	43K
React 16.2.0 + React DOM	31.8K
Vue 2.4.2	20.9K
Inferno 1.2.2	20K
Preact 7.2.0	4kb
Aurelia 1.0.2	63K

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At a certain point architecture not framework size becomes the bigger performance issue. Regardless of framework, SPA performance doesn't scale and I haven't found the awkward embedded micro-frontend SPA architecture to noticeably improve performance either. You have to break up jumbo SPAs into independent apps and use (drumroll) the internet to hyperlink apps together into a cohesive product.

I am a huge fan of tiny frameworks though. Preact and Svelte and Riot are tangibly lighter and faster, but for me they also set a tone for the project: smaller, simpler, easier is our ever-present goal. I like to approach it as if we're building a fleet of carbon fiber race drones, not a Boeing 747.

We have an inmense internal app with Angular and it have a normal weight, like 90KB/screen, except the ones that use one superpowerfull grid that weights like 500KB+- Normally frameworks allows you to lazyload by modules, for example, if you reach the login screen you would download login screen module and app module, the if you navigate to sales/order you donwload sales and order modules only becouse core is already, then if you navigate to sales/order/detail you only download detail module. At component level you can do exactly the same, download if it is needed. I just see that some projects are so bad designed that need to be split in multiple apps becouse they have like 10-30 minutes of build time. All our components except chartjs and ag-grid are handmade, me have minimal css and js and all works fast El jue, 15 jun 2023 a las 18:54, Jordan Brennan ***@***.***>) escribió:

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You can't use ReactJS alone. You need like 3 more libraries to make it working for the basic uses. react-dom, redux and react-router and the 3 basic if you want to create a very decent app. Comparing ReactJS alone is a false comparison compare to fully featured frameworks like Angular and VueJS. Please add these 3 libraries and you will see how bloated ReactJS is.

You can't use ReactJS alone. You need like 3 more libraries to make it working for the basic uses. react-dom, redux and react-router and the 3 basic if you want to create a very decent app. Comparing ReactJS alone is a false comparison compare to fully featured frameworks like Angular and VueJS. Please add these 3 libraries and you will see how bloated ReactJS is.

That's true you know , maybe redux can be skipped considering the careful use of context and useReducer() no ?