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No that's including all the comments, types, dev only checks etc. I'm talking about what you get when using the production build.

I had a quick look around and it's actually ~1000 lines apparently, in React 19.

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Actually why stop at that. The minified build apparently has just one line!

I don't feel like that's a good faith reply. I'm making the claim that react's production build core is surprisingly small and shouldn't be considered a security risk (or attack surface as someone above phrased it).

Do you dispute that? If so, why?

Your claim that the "react core" is small isn't correct. React+ReactDOM is >130kb, the minimum needed to run a react component. To create TUIs, Ink ships even more.

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