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Discussion on: Will Svelte ever beat the giants?

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intermundos

In my opinion, if Svelte team will not focus on providing tooling around Svelte - devtools, routing, state management etc. the answer is no. You can't develop complex apps without properly configured tools around your project.

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Nir Lanka ニル

I guess that's a more critical point than what I'm talking about. I didn't think about that.
And yeah, I totally agree.

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Trent Jones

Sapper handles routing. Svelte store handles state management. What's wrong with those solutions?

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intermundos

Have you got an easy and transparent way to debug Sapper routing? Perhaps small apps are ok to build with Svelte, but for large scale apps it lacks tooling. Take a look at Vue's devtools and compare it to Svelte's, ah wait, there is none.

It is just my humble opinion, but I would not chose Svelte as a power train for a big badda app, even though I like Svelte very much.

PS. Nothing wrong with those solutions. They are just not enough.

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Gabriel Azevedo
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intermundos • Edited

I just want to say that as for now, Svelte is too raw to be taken seriously.

All the tools you propose look insufficient after you use let's say Vue's devtools a while.

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Gabriel Azevedo

I see! hahah
Well, there's truth on your opinion - if each and every new tool on JS were to be taken seriously, we'd definitely burnout in no time. I don't disagree with that, I just pasted the link there because I had just found that on the Chrome extensions.
And indeed - learning it and hoping to find jobs with that tech is not viable (at least for now)