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Vue 3 is 16kb, or 27kb if you use everything. It feels like "heavy" refers primarily to cognitive load (a legit factor, of course).

A big difference though is that the Livewire lib is downloaded only once and includes Alpine for client side stuff.

With React you still need a ton of JS with components and other libs.

45kb (zipped!) for document.createElement() with a babel transpiler build process.

Excuse me, I forgot that react-dom also ships with an implementation of document.appendChild()