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Discussion on: SolidJS vs React: I've Built the Same App On Both Libraries.

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Ryan Carniato

I don't think anyone has any illusions on the ecosystem side of things. This is the first concern always. The performance is impressive, but one can always think of ways to wrestle out even more performance if desired.

The key value of Solid is that it can take the tools, syntax, and APIs that you are familiar with, take the flexibility of runtime javascript and composition, and embrace a reactive execution model. This example was pretty much identical on both sides, but as components scale in complexity React Hooks get trickier.

People have been enjoying this in Vue and Svelte for some time now, but Solid has brought that simpler model to React's structured philosophy. The result is something that is performant and requires less logic, but also with explicit control and transparency we love from React.

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Ezra Bowman

I’ve been experimenting with Svelte for a while now. Svelte probably has more of a community around it than Solid, but obviously still a far cry from the size of the React community. I’d be interested in seeing the performance difference between Solid and Svelte. Overall I think these frameworks that are faster ultimately will win out, but it will take a while.