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Eh where did you see that? ReasonReact is runtime-free, unless you’re explicitly using some of the extra helpers.

I ran the production build of https://github.com/reasonml-community/reason-react-example/t... and ran the JS bundle through gzip -9 to get the 56KB number.

Oh man, that repo's stale. The official instructions are here: https://reasonml.github.io/reason-react/docs/en/installation