Ask HN: Is Svelte lean and pragmatic or missing something?

  • Posted 2 years ago by StefanWestfal
  • 15 points
Context: I am a full stack developer that uses React to build simple UIs for technical simulations.

When working with React I spent a lot of time, also out of curiousity, on different solutions for certain problems (Think of Redux, MobX, and Recoil or React wrappers like React-Konva). With Svelte I don't do that. It seems most basic functionality is included in a thin layer of abstract above HTML, CSS, and JS (ref. The truth about Svelte by Rich Harris) and the Svelte standard library. From state management, reactivity, and with SvelteKit, to SSR and code splitting. For problems not covered is was, until now, always easy to use TS/JS.

Question: is Svelte lean and pragmatic or is it missing something?

Note: I know React, use it, and like it (especially with hooks & Redux-Toolkit). As I am far from senior, maybe there are some complexities I am not seeing yet.

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