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Projecting React
The React API was rebuilt from scratch for only TanStack Start, resulting in a ~9KB gzip size (compared to React's ~60KB) and running 2–3 times faster while passing all tests and powering two production sites. Cheap code regeneration makes shipping full general-purpose dependencies obsolete, suggesting that future web development will be like Linux distributions, where consumers own shape-specific projections of libraries.
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