Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces

Re:Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building us... by exceptione on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @08:53AM (#43771557)

Thanks. If that is the common approach in Svelte to third party components, than I learned something.

  > You just make whatever it is you want in HTML and make it reactive 
  > ... instead of spending time mastering the API of some component,

I am not sure if that would be a win. The API of the component is actually a selling point, because the component gets used in many different ways across the application. Possibly under influence of user configuration.

If I were to achieve a reasonable amount of flexibility, I would have to redo the work of that library: create a flexible component from scratch with a good api. That is my concern at least.

So when I see the other frameworks libraries, I get the impression that possibly the target audience differ in needs, like so:

  data-heavy, enterprise systems, business software  => react
  webshop etc, "simple" consumer oriented            => svelte, solidjs etc

Correct me if wrong.

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Re:Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building us... by division_by_0 on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @08:58AM (#43771623)

I think the best case for using Svelte or Solid over React is when performance is critical, e.g. in big and/or fast data contexts.

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Re:Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building us... by exceptione on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @09:31AM (#43771955)

Good point. I don't know how much of the gap remains if one can settle for Preactjs, but Reactjs is not the fastest.

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Re:Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building us... by Sammi on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @02:32PM (#43775243)

The reason you don't see Svelte versions of common libraries as much as you do for React, is that with Svelte you can just use the vanilla js/html/css version and they work great. React has a hard time using vanilla approaches because the virtual dom and hooks aren't vanilla and don't work like vanilla. React is it's own world and therefore needs to have a React version of everything.

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Re:Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building us... by exceptione on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @05:12PM (#43776668)

I think I do not completely grok that, maybe I have to experiment with Svelte a bit more. As GP mentioned, in Svelte one does not reach for third party components, so you might be on to something.

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