alt Hacker NewsThis is great. But I went for Svelte. Invested in Svelte and SvelteKit. Wrote a decent sized app (not toy example, pretty feature right, tens of forms and screens if you will) and later I looked back at React.
And I discovered that:
- React is not that hard if you understand the hooks.
- React is lightweight too. For my use case at least.
- React is boring technology at this point which is good.
- The ecosystem is huge. You cannot have React Query like library and that's just one example.
Even React Native supports React compiler and I don't see this support going away rather getting better.
PS Edit: React compiler leaves not much for runes in Svelte or its compiled nature. I don't like Svelte much after runes because it feels like you're not writing Javascript rather a notation that looks like Javascript. Post React compiler, much of the hooks hell is not needed in complex scenarios.
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TanStack Query (formerly known as React Query) is absolutely compatible with Svelte. https://tanstack.com/query/latest
I work with react for a decade now, and with Svelte for past 3 years. Svelte is obviously a newer generation of framework, and works for me a lot better than React. But I agree there are some rough edges, mostly around the ecosystem
I transitioned to svelte and I’m finding it around 3x to 2x times less complex than React
I learned React back in the class component days. I recently picked it back up and found functional components and hooks to be absolutely baffling. Does anyone know why they went down this route?
Svelte is definitely much less verbose and requires less code. Performance is also way better but it might not matter for many use cases.
The drawback is that since Svelte is really a language[1] you now need a compiler and custom dev tools to make it all work. This requires some serious effort to maintain and evolve.
I love Svelte and have been using it almost daily for years... but the team really needs more resources to accomplish their vision and maintain it for the foreseeable future. It's amazing that huge companies like Apple are adopting Svelte (eg: Apple Music) and not investing in it.
[1] https://gist.github.com/Rich-Harris/0f910048478c2a6505d1c321...