Lucifier129
commented
7 years ago There are some information in the react-lite-vs-react part of README.
The reasons of why react-lite is smaller than react is that
- react-lite do not need to support IE8 or ES3
- react-lite use the w3c event system which is native supported in modern browser, and regular react has a complex custom event system. a lot of code in react is about this big feature.
- react-lite do not support server-side rendering.
- react is one of the biggest script size of virtual-dom implementation, virtual-dom, react-lite, preact, inferno, vue-v2 are all smaller than react.
matthewoates
Thanks again for the quick response on my earlier issue.
I'm using react-lite for a non-trivial project, and assuming it's successful I'd like to post about the performance of react vs react-lite in the project. I see most of the react API is mimicked with react-lite, but the docs don't explain why react-lite is smaller than react.
I suspect there are some expensive corner cases that react handles but react-lite does not. Can you elaborate on this?