React v15.0
Is there a reason why the file size has exploded?<p>react.min.js is now 145.4kb. For comparioson, angular.min.js is 155.2kb. One of React&#x27;s biggest selling points was that it was much smaller than Angular&#x2F;Ember&#x2F;Backbone etc, but I&#x27;m not sure that argument can be leveraged anymore. I think React is a culmination of some great ideas, but in my view this is a big step back. Especially since Angular&#x2F;Ember&#x2F;etc. offer a lot more tools out of the box.<p>I don&#x27;t intend to tell anyone here that React is a bad framework because it&#x27;s not, but I think it should be a big priority to tighten down the file size. When React is big pretty much all their selling points go out the window.<p>Perhaps they can split files up so you can just import the APIs you want. I wonder how much that would help with the bloat.<p>I feel like some of the smaller VDOM frameworks like Cycle&#x2F;Mithril&#x2F;Riot are a lot more appealing now, since they focus on small file size and low bloat.