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Discussion on: Svelte, why so much hype ?

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kurisutofu

For many years, I didn't touch anything JS but when I came back to it, I was impressed by its evolution. I really like nodeJS for example but when I tried Svelte, it blew my mind.
However, it's still too incomplete for me to adopt it in a project but I'll definitely revisit it later!

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Anthony Le Goas

Interesting, what are you missing to make it complete enough ? 🤔

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kurisutofu

It may have changed now but when I tested it, I remember I had to type everything. By that, I mean there was no easy element management, especially for the UI.
For example, I am using VueJS for my project and with it, ElementJS so I don't have to design myself UI components (and because I'm not a good designer). I know I'm being lazy but if it's easier and faster, you're more flexible too.
As I said, it was at the time I tested it and I remember joining a discord channel about Svelte where someone mentioned he was working on something similar to a UI element repository so maybe now it's available.

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Gábor Soós

You can get a hard time testing the components compared to other frameworks

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kurisutofu

Testing was not too hard because those were quick and one-time things. However, implementing it on production would require something more flexible and easy to maintain (UI elements comes to mind. I forget other aspects).

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Dirk H. Wolthuis

Hi, what do you miss?

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kurisutofu

Mainly UI elements management, I guess.
Well, I say "mainly" because I forgot the other points now 😅

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vinksz

completely overhyped.. and i find the docs to be very poorly written, unlike vue&nuxt ecosystem, when i read docs, everything is crystal clear... then again i'm super tired atm.
and switching paradigms too often confuses my brain, i'll rechecl svelte when its further in the development than rc1