Ask HN: What do you use for front end?

[Kpourdeilami]

Hello HN,

A while ago after doing some research, I decided to go with VueJS for the frontend of a project I was working on but it feels very clunky and slow. The page size with all the libraries installed is nearly 8MBs.

I'm considering ditching our SPA all together building a flask app to interact with the backend with 0 javascript to reduce the page size and make it faster. I was wondering if there are any lightweight alternatives to Vue or know any good practices for speeding up the SPAs?

[christophilus]

8mb is nuts. Is this the minified & gzipped size? Either way, code splitting and dead code elimination are your friends. I wonder if you're including multiple versions of the same libraries, or pulling in heavy libraries for only a handful of features?

Is your code available somewhere for us to look at?

[Kpourdeilami]

8mb is the local version of the code without gzip and minification. I just tested at the minified version and it is 2.5 megabytes

[eberkund]

8 MB?

What on earth are you including in your pages?

[Kpourdeilami]

It is a gigantic SPA using Vue, VueMaterial, and D3. It has around ~300 components. I don't know if it would be possible to lazy load some of the components