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Discussion on: 🤖 Svelte Reviewed: A Masterclass on Empowerment 🤖

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Juan F Gonzalez

I like the "empowerment" term. I feel like Svelte has the best of both worlds in regard to simplicity and full development power.

When I started using it more often, it quickly ruined my experience working with React. If it weren't for NextJS, I have would dropped React a long time ago.

And even to this date, whenever I want to build something custom, my go-to is Svelte right from the get-go. It's such a user-friendly technology that even web dev beginners can start using right away (I wrote about just that before).

Great review! Pretty thorough and well put together.

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Basti Ortiz

When I started using it more often, it quickly ruined my experience working with React.

Believe it or not, I have heard the exact same sentiment from all of the React developers that I have introduced Svelte to. They always have that priceless look of shock and disbelief at the fact that front-end development can actually be beautiful. Then the conversation always leads to how they are so relieved to not worry about hooks anymore. It just never gets old!

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Juan F Gonzalez

Yooo that's it. "Not worry about hooks anymore". Perfect line.
Don't have to scour through docs to see what new "hooks" appeared or when to properly implement "useRef" or whatever else.
Web development can be as simple as HTML and CSS powered by Svelte's reactivity in ease of use with JS baked in.