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A short example, no, because if all you need is a simple website, then you don't need Vue either :)

If you're building complex user interfaces or a large-scale web app, then hell yeah, you want to use React or Vue.

You can use vue, because for most web-applications with vue3 you will only add an additional 15kb to it. I'd wager kilobyte counts that low are worth it when you consider how much easier it is to add on additional functionality when you need it. A well-built build system can do so much automatically for you, including but not limited to automatically minifying your code, cleaning up dead code, html and styles or compressing your images in the build step.

For reference: I recently built a really large scale website with react, including a content-management-system, custom fonts, around 50 pictures and a ton of tracking. It weighs 1,1MB total. The first request without lazy-loaded resources only uses around 200KB. Can't really argue against that.

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