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Use svelte. Trust me. JS/TS + html and css

The biggest svelte complaint I see is that there aren’t enough libraries. That’s because it is trivial to built things with svelte. And as a UI engineer you should know how to build, not just npm install some-shit

Source: former UI tech lead, been using react since Dec 2015 and have built apps with it that are used by millions of users.



I dev in svelte/kit full time. I’ve built a ton of projects with it after doing corporate react stuff for a couple years. I’m so tired of hearing people say “well the ecosystem for react is stronger because of how many libraries there are.”

No, that’s not a good sign for a framework. If you need an enormous ecosystem of helpers to get anything done, that’s a detriment. Svelte doesn’t have libraries because it doesn’t need them. Kit comes with tons of out of the box features, and there’s nothing I can’t achieve with either:

1. My own JavaScript code. 2. An NPM package IF need be.

Seriously. Svelte has everything react has, with a much better developer experience. It’s the evolution of vanilla web, and even if I got canned tomorrow, I would search until I found another job with either stack freedom or svelte as it’s framework.




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