Bundle size: what's an "acceptable" initial JS payload to you in 2026?

I've seen teams treat 1MB as normal and others sweat over 50KB. The honest answer depends on your audience's devices and network.

What budget do you enforce in CI?

#Performance #BundleSize

You want to improve you node dependency tree? module-replacements got you covered.

You can also get eslint tooling for this using the depend plugin.

https://github.com/es-tooling/module-replacements/blob/main/docs/modules/README.md

https://github.com/es-tooling/eslint-plugin-depend

#nodejs #eslint #e18e #javascript #bundlesize