TLDR: Svelte is like Rails, lots of magic to do pre-ordained stuff quickly. If it can do everything you need your UI to do it will be very productive. But if you have UI requirements that don’t exist in Svelte (or Sveltekit) out of the box, you may be better served by a more primitives/toolbox-based framework like Solidjs.
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There was a big discussion about Svelte recently, here’s one of many comments that may be relevant:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37380980#37382287
TLDR: Svelte is like Rails, lots of magic to do pre-ordained stuff quickly. If it can do everything you need your UI to do it will be very productive. But if you have UI requirements that don’t exist in Svelte (or Sveltekit) out of the box, you may be better served by a more primitives/toolbox-based framework like Solidjs.
Thank you, I'll take a look at that!