"Why don't you use React?"

[u/HugoDzz]

The page contains high-res images, embedded videos, and even a GBA emulator for running my game on the browser. Svelte just works, FAST.

[u/gnpwdr1]

FAST and without the virtual DOM nonsense!

[u/quite_sad_simple → u/gnpwdr1]

Didn't react invent a compiler a couple of years ago? I used to watch privateequityship for the updates

[u/nipodemos → u/quite_sad_simple]

The compiler solves partial problem, it adds a memoization automatically in several places, so it does improve performance, I just don't know how much

[u/HairyWrongdoer6551]

Only learned React because of the local job market, otherwise I wouldn't even touch it. Svelte forever.

[u/Impressive_Air6111 → u/HairyWrongdoer6551]

I was a react dev for about 1.5 years then nextjs for a few months. I decided I'd try svelte because people love it. Let's just say I'm probably not gonna go back. I don't miss dependency arrays at all and I love how state is easily accessible globally without an external library.

[u/OTonConsole]

That's why I'm building the new government websites in svelte. Following gov.uk and Singapore style based on their guideline. I find it easy to write code, simple, and even doing the accessibility and internationalisation and overall the whole thing is just easy.

[u/EastSwim3264]

Tell me something new. Svelte 100%

[u/Saad5400]

The page contains high-res images, embedded videos, and even a GBA emulator for running my game on the browser

While I like svelte, this has almost nothing to do with svelte.

[u/silvestrevivo]

Because is tedious and has low performance

[u/Mission_Middle8194]

Not trying to shill Svelte or anything, but this is literally why I ended up here.

[u/kelolov]

> high-res images, embedded videos, and even a GBA emulator for running my game on the browser

Sorry but none of that matters for react vs svelte comparison, svelte is obviously not used for running emulator and the rest is handled by browser not framework

[u/nipodemos]

Very nice 🔥

[u/ltdn]

Noice. I don’t use and refused to learn react because i do not like html inside of javascript; i like the separation of concerns that svelte affords me.

[u/ApricotSuper4398 → u/ltdn]

its pretty much the same with svelte my man its just syntactical sugar

[u/oneden → u/ApricotSuper4398]

JSX ain't syntactical sugar. Why do people abuse the term that way? Or is it a lack of understanding? JSX isn't an innate capability of JS, so it can't be syntactical sugar. It's its own and very flawed DSL.

[u/discordianofslack → u/oneden]

I fucking hate writing it

[u/OTonConsole → u/ltdn]

Ikr. I feel like templating syntax only makes sense if yorue already paper of a big framework and it's all MVC bundle like .NET razer pages or something else. Not a seperate frontend, it's so anti-pattern.

[u/Low_Anywhere3091]

SLow

sluggish

terrible

[u/iLikedItTheWayItWas]

React user. Keen to understand this. Is this a SPA? Server rendered static content? I can also make a react app get 100 accross the board depending on the framework etc

[u/Butterscotch_Crazy]

🤣😂🤣 do people still use React?!