Nolan Lawson benchmarks 12 JavaScript frameworks building the same Pokémon app with Claude
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Nolan Lawson benchmarked 12 JavaScript frameworks by having Claude Opus 5.5 build the same Pokémon app in each, measuring build cost, time, tokens, Lighthouse scores and lines of code.
Hono with htmx had the lowest median build cost at $2.67 per run, and Angular had the highest at $4.97. Lawson notes that results vary widely between runs and that the test covers only one content-heavy app type.
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AINolan Lawson benchmarked 12 JavaScript frameworks by having Claude Opus 5.5 build the same Pokémon app in each, measuring cost, time, tokens, Lighthouse scores, and lines of code. Hono+htmx had the lowest median build cost at $2.67 per run, and Angular had the highest at $4.97. The author notes that results vary widely between runs and that the test covers only one content-heavy app type.
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