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And React is only about 5kB unless I'm mistaken?

React itself is quite small but react-dom is much bigger: 121KB minified, 40KB gzipped - https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=react-dom@17.0.1

Jesus, that's jQuery levels of obesity.

I see, that number came up in search but I did suspect it wouldn't be the full story. Thanks!