I BUILT THE SAME APP 10 TIMES: EVALUATING FRAMEWORKS FOR MOBILE PERFORMANCE

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A developer built the same Kanban app 10 times to evaluate mobile performance, finding that next-gen frameworks (Marko, SolidStart, and SvelteKit) delivered 35-39ms load times with bundles 4-6x smaller than Next.js, which shipped 176.3 kB compressed and loaded in 467ms. It was found that React has an unavoidable performance ceiling, since TanStack Start with React delivered 118.2 kB compressed versus 60.4 kB with Solid using identical infrastructure, proving React's runtime adds 2x overhead.