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		azemetre 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button Agreed. I don't think people realize that 5mb of a PNG is way different than 5mb of JS. The browser parsers that PNG way way faster than it parses JS.

FridgeSeal 6 months ago [–]

The PNG also doesn’t then go off and start pulling even more data down off the network.

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