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Hamilton Greene

I've started using Svelte for frontend.

I used React and NextJS for the past few years and generally liked it - a really solid development and production experience. In the past few months I started seeing people raving about Svelte in their side projects (a lot of those posts were here on DEV!).

I looked into it and was amazed at how simple it looked. It was very easy to understand and removed a lot of the boilerplate code / gotchas I kept running into in React (esp. with data handling and hooks). After playing around with it for a few days, I started migrating my projects over and haven't looked back!

I'm now using Svelte and Sveltekit (even though it's not out of beta!) and have been enjoying the benefits.

I wrote Svelte is better than React with more of my thoughts on the comparisons and why I made the jump.