A recent benchmark evaluated the AI cost of building a Pokémon app across 12 different JavaScript frameworks. Nolan Lawson commissioned agents to construct the app using various setups, including Angular, Next.js, Astro, and Hono with htmx. The results showed Hono with htmx to be the most cost-effective at $2.67 per run, requiring the least amount of code. In contrast, Angular proved to be the most expensive at $4.97, alongside being the slowest and largest in size. Astro, however, was the fastest to build and minimized client-side JavaScript. AI
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