Tag: vanilla html

The Blind Spot React, Vue, and Angular All Share

I built the same 3-page site six ways — React, Vue, Angular, two vanilla approaches, and my own Rust server — then measured what each one actually costs. The dependency gap was expected. What surprised me was which builds are invisible to Google and AI crawlers entirely.

Do you know how much wasted space your sites use?

I tested a real theory: does npm actually cost you more than it's worth? Built the same landing page two ways — with npm packages, and with none — and measured what each one actually shipped. The gap was bigger than I expected. Here's the honest breakdown.