In Q3 2024, our 12-person frontend team replaced a 3-year-old, 142-route Angular 17 production app serving 2.4 million monthly active users with Vue 3.5, cutting total bundle size by 41.7%, reducing first-contentful-paint (FCP) by 58%, and eliminating 12,400 lines of framework boilerplate with zero customer-facing regressions. The rewrite paid for itself in 11 months via reduced CDN costs and 22% higher mobile conversion rates, proving that targeted framework rewrites can deliver measurable business value when guided by benchmarks and automation. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (2478 points) Bugs Rust won't catch (248 points) HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle (49 points) How ChatGPT serves ads (309 points) Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, column lineage (37 points) Key Insights Vue 3.5's Vite 5.4 native bundling with ESBuild 0.21 under the hood reduced gzipped main bundle size from 187KB to 109KB, a 41.7% reduction over Angular 17's Webpack 5.88…