Hi HN-crowd,
Is anyone using Svelte (https://www.svelte.dev) in production? What are your experiences with it? I can't seem to find any experience reports.
Thanks!
Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
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Re: Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
#2Looks neat but I don't know why you'd choose it over one of the big 3 (React/Vue/Angular).
Seems to have far less community support and 3rd party libraries available. If you're a business it's probably harder to hire for too as it's less well-known.
Re: Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
#3I've been pretty happy with it. I migrated my website to use it and I'm also using it for a new project. I've found that I'm significantly more productive with it than when using React or Angular, since there is two-way binding and very little boilerplate. There is also a material UI binding for it [1], which makes it easier to develop advanced user interfaces. In my experience, bundle sizes with Svelte can be smaller than JQuery, whereas I typically see bundles over 1 MB for Angular and larger than JQuery for React. The framework is also very easy to learn, as there is a full interactive tutorial [2] online and the framework is optimized for development experience.
The only area of concern at this time is that there is no TypeScript support and debugging can be difficult as it often throws exceptions in vendor code if the error isn't caught by the compiler. Despite this, I've found that I am more productive and get less runtime exceptions developing with Svelte than Angular since it is simpler to develop with and does a lot of compile-time error checking.
I have a repository with working scss and IE 11 polyfills [3]. It's using a custom system for authentication, but it is easy to switch out with something more ideal. There is also a branch with svelte material UI installed. I find that Visual Studio Code with the svelte add-on is the easiest way to work with it.
[1] https://github.com/hperrin/svelte-material-ui/ [2] https://svelte.dev/tutorial/ [3] https://github.com/iwalton3/swapi-svelte
Re: Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
#4Silly note, but its just https://svelte.dev and weirdly they don't appear to even have the www subdomain registered, so anyone copy pasting above will error, but the site is up.
Re: Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
#5I've used it for a small side project. It's fun to build in, but the testing story is almost non-existent.
Re: Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
#6Looks neat but I don't know why you'd choose it over one of the big 3 (React/Vue/Angular). Seems to have far less community support and 3rd party libraries available. If you're a business it's probably harder to hire for too as it's less well-known.
Not everything needs to be thought of as a business use case, you don't always need to think about the ability to hire additional developers who know your framework of choice. Also when I'm hiring I care very little about whether people have experience with the framework we use (Angular).
Even still, I think svelte can be a good choice if your focus is on enhancing html with javascript rather than focusing on javascript for everything.
Re: Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
#7Looks neat but I don't know why you'd choose it over one of the big 3 (React/Vue/Angular). Seems to have far less community support and 3rd party libraries available. If you're a business it's probably harder to hire for too as it's less well-known.
>Looks neat but I don't know why you'd choose it over one of the big 3
Vue is backed and influenced by Chinese corporations, and React is FB, if you dislike both and can somehow afford to avoid depending on them you might become a happier dev.
Re: Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
#8It's cute but I can't recommend it for a project with more than one developer. Lack of TypeScript support and the hacky component model (specifically, Svelte's equivalent of React props) are the two big deal-breakers.
Re: Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
#9Looks neat but I don't know why you'd choose it over one of the big 3 (React/Vue/Angular). Seems to have far less community support and 3rd party libraries available. If you're a business it's probably harder to hire for too as it's less well-known.
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Re: Ask HN: What are your experiences with Svelte (JS framework)
#10Silly note, but its just https://svelte.dev and weirdly they don't appear to even have the www subdomain registered, so anyone copy pasting above will error, but the site is up.
Apparently they're adherents of http://no-www.org/.