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I've created a small site to be used by a nonprofit. A few pages, JAMstack. I think it's great and will try to use it as much as I can in the future. Somehow in your tutorials using `$page` for accessing `page` store values completely escaped me.
Pros:
- Great DX (happy developers)
- Easy to learn
- Code is easy to reason about
- Little boilerplate
- Very fast (not best in class, but close enough)
- The benefits of being a compiler (eg. data viz, more to come)
Cons:
- Lacks official support for TS (coming)
- Lacks the rich ecosystem of React/Vue/Angular (comes with adoption)
Svelte (and Sapper) has the potential to be huge. I normally don't participate on any online forum but signed up specifically to comment on this topic. I've experienced building web sites starting with cgi-bin handlers to React apps and everything in between. React reminds me of the Java days when we would use the Spring framework - huge tooling and setup, architecturally moribound (in a sense, dont flame me), and to…
I almost flamed you.. but After xteen years I still try to like web development but I still fail to comprehend why the web dev world struggles to reinvent programming starting mid air and working towards foundations, starting with a flawed high level language and going towards "assembly", starting with an incomplete set of high(er) level UI primitives (input, button, select, p, div) and a primitive rigid layout syste…