main.js is 511kb before I start building the app?

[joeaudette]

I am new to react, I don't mean this as criticism of this project, but is it considered normal to start with a bundle > 500kb before you even really begin building a react app?

when I do npm run build I see the output main.js is 511kb and even the cli shows it in yellow [big] as a warning, and that is minified. If I do node run the file is 1.68 MB unminified.

it seems big for boilerplate code that is just a starting point for building an app, is this considered normal in the react world?