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Discussion on: Stop Overcomplicating Web Development - Try Svelte

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Arnaud Dagnelies • Edited

I think this post misses a very important aspect: the ecosystem. We have seen to many frameworks come and go, some are even sick of it. The ones who "survived" were react, vuejs and angular. Each has its own flavor, its pros and cons, but most of all they have a mature ecosystem, which svelte lacks of.

...interestingly enough, I used a lot its predecessor: ractive.js.org/ . It was made by the same guy, who then abandonned it in favor of svelte. Afterwards, ractive never really recovered from this blow. The community was rather small and deteriorated into a slow death. So, I got burned a bit. It makes me warry of web technologies lacking crucial momentum.

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Emmanuil B.

A solid point, especially in a professional setting a framework's ecosystem is a very important consideration.

A thriving ecosystem takes time however, and I do think that for Svelte it is steadily building up, with more more developers learning the framework and more tools being built.