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I remember hearing that even a trivial React Native app is around 100MB on Android.

If you use Electron, yes, any application starts from around 100MB.

But there are alternatives that reuse the OS's libraries nowadays.

How does a web application reuse browser system-native libraries?

Electron ships a version of Chrome. Other frameworks like Tauri use the device's webview.

The entire discussion is about native applications, not web.

Why Electron? React Native doesn't even use HTML.

React Native doesn’t use Electron

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