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?
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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 ใป Mar 19 '19 ใป 7 min read
I prefer svelte but use react for now.
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Svelte!
Yea without TypeScript support I wot be picking it up for anything other than hobby projects. Side note: since TS doesnโt lint html files itโs unclear when if ever it will support Svelte.
blog.scottlogic.com/2020/07/24/sve...
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:
Between Svelte and React, then Svelte.
But I actually use Nim instead anyway.
Nim, the system language? I'm tempted to learn it but how is it related to UI development?
Compiles to JS/WASM, is similar to Svelte. But Templates/Macros/Types โค๏ธ
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.
Svelte Docs has something hard to understand. No clear writing about dynamic pages in svelte. or create a blog page etc.
one point I see that no one is making is performance. React is stupidly slow (any react app on my computer is slow). Svelte is really fast. And it's simpler to code with it.
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.
where's the lack of docs on svelte? it has plenty of docs in many different forms. also, you're not supposed to create dynamic pages for a blog. Use Jekyll, ffs.
Svelte Docs is good; I mean the stuff like Graphql, typescript is the future improvement of svelte.
well, after using graphql a lot, I hate the ecosystem. it's not flexible at all. I'm talking about the official Apollo things. the docs suck. and about typescript, it's a valid point although I don't use it.
Svelte supports TypeScripts since months already.
GraphQL can be useful when you donโt have a solid backend service but otherwise just create an endpoint with what you need to request and thatโs it ... you can even choose the language for the backend API server: Javascript, PHP, C#, Rust, Scala, whatever you like the most
Don't see any reason why I would need to switch from React to some other framework like Vue or Svetle
That makes me remember my grandmother when I changed her computer Windows 95 to Linux ... she asked: why ?
Totally agree. JSX makes me want to vomit every time I see it
Svelte has conventions that can be considered a bit idiosyncratic, but are justified by its "keep it simple" philosophy. It is indeed comparatively performant (even though it is only significant in edge cases such as JS apps that are intensively reactive, targeted at low latency networks or embedded devices). Because Svelte's "compile step" strategy has generated a lot of discussion, it might influence future changes in how other view libraries (including React) deal with DOM manipulation.
The biggest downside of Svelte is that it lacks maturity. But I like its approach very much, and hope the industry sets a special place for it in the future.
PS: as a reinforcement of a point present in other replies to this post, I'd like to stress that if you are an aspiring developer, you are better off not getting caught up with questions of this sort. Ideally, people just starting out concentrate their efforts in becoming familiarized with core Web technologies (the HTML/CSS/JS triumvirate) and how they relate to abstractions such as Svelte or React
Svelte is great for personal projects! I find it was easier to get up and running with Svelte than it was with React. However, Svelte might not scale well, if only because React has better tooling. React has things like Storybook, Redux. It plays well with GraphQL and Styled components. Those tools help solve problems like managing a large UI library and data flows. Svelte just doesn't have those tools (yet).
I prefer React. Svelte reminds me so much of Vue. The semantics are similar. But this HTML templating syntax is horrendous and gives me nightmares from AngularJS.
Svelte! It's looking pretty good in terms of bundle size and performance; but I'm also really enjoying the experience working with it (despite my current editor not doing too well with syntax highlighting etc). It's just so straightforward to use:
<script>and<style>tags :DAt the moment it's still rather young; so the only downside is persuading colleagues that it's a better choice than React.
I've used both and Svelte definitely is easier to learn and has a more enjoyable dev experience, from my perspective as someone quite young in their dev career. I also really like a lot of the inbuilt functionality that svelte has such as transitions, window bindings, reactive declarations and reactive statements. If I had just learned HTML/CSS/JS and was looking to learn my first framework, between react and svelte it would be svelte.