Deployable size, per stack (KB)
HTML + CSS + JS a browser can be sent — react/vue/angular are their production build output
Dev-time node_modules (MB)
Never deployed — the weight your machine (and CI) carries just to build
vanilla-static / vanilla-spa: 0 packages, 0 MB. No install step exists.
site-server: 70 Cargo crates compiled from source, not pre-built node_modules —
a different model, not shown to scale here.