Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
Published on: 2025-05-21 10:47:41
April 1, 2025 Apps lighter than a React button Tero Piirainen @tipiirai
On this release we're showing what you can do by taking the modern web standards — HTML, CSS, and JS — to their absolute peak:
The entire app is significantly lighter than a React button:
See benchmark and details here ›
Going large-scale
Here’s the same app, now with a Rust computation engine and Event Sourcing for instant search and other operations over 150,000 records — far past where JavaScript (and React) would crash with a stack overflow error:
Instant operations across 150.000 records with Rust/WASM
See this demo live ›
Tooling
Nue crushes HMR and build speed records and sets you up with a millisecond feedback loop for your day-to-day VSCode/Sublime file-save operations:
Immediate feedback for design and component updates, preserving app state
Here's what this means:
For Rust, Go, and JS engineers
This is a wake-up call for Rust, Go, and JS engineers stuck wrestling with React idioms instead of
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