Preact bundle larger than React

[luca-aurelia]

Hi folks!

Thanks for all your amazing hard work on Preact 🙏A couple of very high performance products I've launched would have been impossible without all the effort you've put in to building such a small, fast library. I know that making things small is often harder than making them big. (As Blaise Pascal once said, "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.")

I just came across a data point and wanted to see what you all thought: In the past, one of Preact's many benefits was how much smaller it was than React. According to Bundlephobia, that's no longer the case:

	Minified	Minified + gzipped
React 16.7	5.9 kB	2.5 kB
Preact 8.4	8.9 kB	3.5 kB

Not sure what the implications are (if any), but wanted to hear your thoughts on the matter.

Cheers!
Thomas

[Panya]

It's size without react-dom (in React case). Basically Preact is alternative to react + react-dom. So in React case you should sum their sizes (~33.5 KB vs 3.5 KB)

[marvinhagemeister]

What @Panya said👍

The react package doesn't really do anything in its own and must be used with either react-dom, react-native or some other bindings together.

So yeah, 3.5kB is a lot smaller than 33.5kB 😉

[luca-aurelia]

Figured I was missing something. Thanks for pointing that out!