[nicoburns]

So I had (an admittedly brief) look into Svelte on the back of your comment. And one thing that stands out to me is that it appears to be using string templating. This isn't a complete dealbreaker, but it's definitely a step back from the React world where everything is JavaScript. This was by far the biggest pain point in other frameworks like Angular, so I'd be pretty reluctant to go back to it.

Looking at the framework benchmarks (https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...), svelte is indeed a good bit faster than React. However, Inferno which takes a react-like virtual DOM approach but better optimised is faster still. So I'd be more inclined to go with that if I were willing to give up the React library ecosystem.