The issue (and this isn’t React’s fault) is that every single web app is so obsessed with measuring analytics and engagement metrics and loading multiple ad containers and and and…
Whether Vite, or Svelte, or Vanilla JS, when you start stuffing a site with all these tracking pixels and other junk, they are all horrible.
There is likely a bit of observer bias going on with your comment, as many popular sites these days run React and they happen to run like crap due to the reasons I listed above.
They're definitely horrible from a moral standpoint, but if you look at the flamechart of JS activity in your browser you can easily see that they sit idle 99% of the time and only send events to an API as low priority background work when the browser does things. They aren't what makes websites slow.
That probably explains why the Amazon website just took 5 seconds to load on my phone while on a gigabit connection at home.
Drawing canvas: https://www.tldraw.com/
Code playground: https://replit.com/
Supabase dashboard: https://supabase.com/
Vercel dashboard: https://vercel.com/
Workout tracking: https://workout.lol/
Chatbot: https://chatgpt.com
Note-taking: https://www.usememos.com/
Tax filing: https://ustaxes.org/start
Python notebook: https://marimo.io/
LoL info: https://www.op.gg/
Sports matches: https://www.sofascore.com/
Trading news: https://seekingalpha.com/
Website builder: https://mmm.page/
Podcast maker: https://podcastle.ai/
My assumption would be that if you haven't seen anything, even from the creator, then you just have different expectations to the people who do get value from React
refine: https://github.com/refinedev/refine appsmith: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith
there are heaps what are you talking about!
