Taimoor Sattar

Posted on Jul 28, 2019

What you prefer svelte or react?

#discuss #beginners #react #svelte

Svelte is getting popular nowadays, as it provides a small bundle size. But svelte is not popular as compare to react as the jobs posting favor mostly react. Moreover, Gatsby and Next.js are built over React.

It is hard to pick between these two, what is your thought on that? Is it good for a personal project?

Oldest comments (30)

rhymes • Jul 28 '19

Svelte seems very easy and self contained. It seems to be created with the idea of lowering complexity and it compiles to code that doesn't require a runtime. Maybe that's enough to give it ago!

This might help:

Why SvelteJS may be the best framework for new web devs

Ben Holmes ・ Mar 19 '19 ・ 7 min read

#javascript #webdev #beginners #svelte

Saurabh Sharma • Jul 28 '19

I prefer svelte but use react for now.

Jon Randy 🎖️ • Jul 28 '19

riot.js.org

Jerliyah • Jul 28 '19

Svelte!

Cubicle Buddha • Jul 29 '19

Yea without TypeScript support I wot be picking it up for anything other than hobby projects. Side note: since TS doesn’t lint html files it’s unclear when if ever it will support Svelte.

Brian Scott • Aug 5 '20

blog.scottlogic.com/2020/07/24/sve...

Austin S. Hemmelgarn • Jul 29 '19

Personally, I prefer neither, but I guess I'm a bit old fashioned by 'modern' web developer standards (I don't use TypeScript either, and ironically have yet to deal with a bug in my code that would have been caught by TypeScript).

Honestly, my thoughts barring that perspective are:

If you're just starting out, use neither. In fact, stay away from full app frameworks completely, and ideally away from stuff like jQuery too. Make sure you actually understand how JavaScript works and how the web API's work first, then start looking at stuff that abstracts that away, and you'll end up a much better developer in the long run. I can't count the number of bugs I've seen in software (not just web apps, but software in general) that got introduced because someone had no idea how the underlying platform actually worked.
Beyond that, the choice for me would come down to whether I'm doing something that truly needs React. Svelte is smaller, faster, and generally easier to work with with other frameworks than React is, so I'd pick it in preference to React in almost all cases I could.

Juan Carlos • Jul 29 '19

Between Svelte and React, then Svelte.
But I actually use Nim instead anyway.

hexrcs • Jul 29 '19

Nim, the system language? I'm tempted to learn it but how is it related to UI development?

Juan Carlos • Jul 29 '19

Compiles to JS/WASM, is similar to Svelte. But Templates/Macros/Types ❤️

hexrcs • Jul 29 '19 • Edited

Cool, saw the Nim Website Creator project on your GH, looks pretty neat! One of the reasons that I want to learn Nim is that the compiler spits out C code, which sounds amazing for portability.

Taimoor Sattar • Jul 29 '19

Svelte Docs has something hard to understand. No clear writing about dynamic pages in svelte. or create a blog page etc.

Taimoor Sattar • Jul 29 '19

It has good performance and also small in size; but limited in docs. Gatsby and Next.js are built on react; it is easy to create blog and website. But in svelte, creating dynamic pages for blog post is quite difficult task.