Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project

Re:Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project by overtowed on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @01:56PM (#22537766)

Author here, just wanted to make a note. This isn't written to hype a battle in the holy war. Frontend frameworks are a positive sum game! Svelte has no monopoly on the compiler paradigm either. Just like I think React is worth learning for the mental model it imparts, where UI is a (pure) function of state, I think the frontend framework-as-compiler paradigm is worth understanding. We're going to see a lot more of it because the tradeoffs are fantastic, to where it'll be a boring talking point before we know it.

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Re:Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project by stanislavb on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @06:52PM (#22540757)

Thanks for your work. I watched a few presentations this week and read quite a bit. It looks very promising, and I'd be happy to start migrating my components to Svelte step by step. I'm a Rails dev, and there's a Rails integration through webpacker already. What I'm waiting for is TypeScript support. Once that's officially released, you can count one covert more :).

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Re:Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project by amelius on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:56PM (#22538386)

Thank you. I hope you will do a write-up of your experiences when the project is completed.

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Re:Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project by marcus_holmes on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @10:06AM (#22545936)

I'm curious that you didn't mention Elm here. Did you look at it and decide not, or not look at it?

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Re:Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project by overtowed on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @11:03AM (#22546396)

It's not a comprehensive weighing of alternatives, instead it's a deep dive into Svelte's pros and cons as they relate to my experience and our project.

Elm is awesome! There's nothing quite like it that I know of in its design space to bring user-friendly functional programming to the web. Similar to Svelte, its design holistically packages up the web's languages. Compared to PureScript, it's focused on a small and beginner-friendly feature set, trading general power to optimize for the webapp use cases. Elm has also been influential to a lot of toolmakers!

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Re:Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project by marcus_holmes on Thursday March 12, 2020 @04:56AM (#22554951)

Thanks, that's useful :)

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Re:Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project by overtowed on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:30PM (#22612315)

Sure, thank you for the question! It prompted me to add a note about Elm and Dart in a relevant section in the document.

One important difference with Svelte versus Elm is that Elm makes a clean break from web technologies, while Svelte is designed to work with future versions of the web's languages.

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