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Seems like you guys set up a complicated stack. My large app takes <5s to build. Hot reloading takes 0.2ms.

We can agree to disagree though.

That's exactly what I meant by "not scaling". Sure if you have much less developers than us and you don't make 100 deployments per day, maybe an SPA can work. I can assure you that when you need to support a complex product, it absolutely doesn't scale at all, even with some developers full time to try to fix the stack.

Our full bundle itself is close to 70mb and still growing every week, that's absolutely insane.

You're all over this thread saying "We couldn't scale it, so you little plebs certainly can't." I'm sorry it didn't scale for you, but it's telling that you think your experience is THE experience. Facebook uses it, I think your company of 100 devs could scale it fine, as many do.

70mb is insane and not at all the standard.

There's a reason why Vite has a default bundle chunk warning of 500kb.

There's really no reason it should be that large. If you just lazy load each route your chunks should distribute into manageable size pretty much automatically.

It sounds like you may also have a bunch of dependencies. Which can happen in a native app, but in a web app as you know you'll have limited resources so size is important.

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