Prerequisites

The purescript optimized builds require zephyr which cannot be installed via NPM.

You can download the binary from the releases page: https://github.com/coot/zephyr/releases

Zephyr 0.2.2 was used for the below bundles.

Summary of optimized, gzipped, bundle sizes for equivalent apps.

Language / Framework	Optimized (KB)	Gzipped (KB)
elm	28	10
purescript react-basic-hooks	134	44
purescript halogen v5	113	24

elm

./build.sh

Compiled size:108329 bytes  (elm.js)
Minified size:27659 bytes  (elm.min.js)
Gzipped size: 9606 bytes

10 KB

purescript react-basic-hooks

npm run build-production

dist/react.a8abe33a.js    134.34 KB

cat dist/react.a8abe33a.js | gzip -c | wc -c
43941

44 KB

purescript halogen v5

npm run build-production

dist/halogen.0a8ee247.js    113 KB

cat dist/halogen.0a8ee247.js | gzip -c | wc -c
24091

24 KB