Pitch to me: why should I use Svelte?

Svelte is a breeze to learn coming from a Vue background. And I find almost everything to be easier and faster about it.

I’ve been using it for about a year.

Here’s a fairly simple website I built recently using Svelte, Sveltekit, Typescript, Pug and GraphCMS. zenithterminals.com

I haven’t used it for anything more complicated yet. But looking forward to doing so soon.

Moved from Nuxtjs (Vuejs framewok) to Sveltekit (Svelte framework) about a year ago.

First what impressed me was the syntax. There is none. You are writing near pure JS/TS code. There is very few syntax sugar, structures of functions you must follow, ... So reading, learning and writing code is easy.

The templating is like every modern JS framework : a general layout + a page for custom stuff depending on...well...the page you are on + components for small reusable parts.

Then the fact that it can be built directly for various hosts systems. Vercel, Netlify, Firebase, Cloudflare, Azure... And all the build is automated. You only have to drop the folder in the host.

There is also the fact in can do SPA, SSR, static sites, ... And paired with the correct adapter, it separates by itself the static part from the server part. For example, I wrote SSR websites and host them on Netlify. Once the build is done with the Netlify adapter, I end with a folder with static resources and a folder dedicated to Netlify functions.

As Svelte is a compiler rather than a real framewok, the built project is very small. Thus fast to load. And the compiler helps you before commiting code with errors or bad practice.

Finally, if you want to write NPM packages, Svelte has a command handling that.

You can find one of my project here : appquarium.fr/ , with its repo . The stack is Sveltekit + GraphQL (Hasura backend) + Tailwind + Firebase Auth, Firestore and Storage.

Simple to use, easy to learn and has good docs. If you are thinking of building a full web app with a backend and routing etc then you should try looking at sveltekit. It is good but is still in beta as of now.

I moved from Vue.js (v. 2) to Svelte about a year ago.
I wrote a blog post comparing the two at jesperhoy.com/p55/svelte-vs-vue-js
I have incorporated Svelte into a few larger commercial projects.
For example, the page geografi.tjek.net/opgaver is a small Svelte SPA showing groups and lists of exercises (in Danish - for schools in Denmark).
Unfortunately most of my Svelte work is behind logins, so not much else to show.

Coming from Vue, Svelte was very easy to pick up, and now I much prefer the Svelte template syntax and coding style.
Svelte is more performant and bundle size is smaller (at least for small to medium sized projects).

The only thing that I don't like about Svelte, is that it requires build tools.
Even for the smallest widget on a server rendered webpage - you have to get everything setup with node, npm, etc.
Lately, I have been looking into Mithril and Lit-html for exactly this reason - tiny frameworks that work both with and without build tools. I might move on to something like that - just so that I can use one tool for everything.

Minimal boilerplate, simple templating, really easy to get going, performant.

Intuitive reactivity