| Svelte hasn't taken over because React is way too popular already. If you want a job you have to learn React (the same way Java is still one of the top lang to get a job but it's for legacy rather than technical reasons). Svelte performance is a nice bonus but it is the last reason I prefer Svelte over React. I prefer Svelte because it is truly reactive (unlike React) which makes everything easier, cleaner & more readable. Svelte is the only framework you can grasp in 10min by just looking at a few examples. To get started, you don't even have to read a tutorial or documentation, the code is self-explanatory. React is a complex beast and, in my opinion, all this is an overkill / overengineered environment for expressing UIs. I find Svelte to be the only framework that "make sense". Ultimately UI is not that complex, it's a store -> derived variables -> UI where each step is a reactive function of the previous one. A framework should let you express this very concisely and take care of everything else for you. If x = y + z then I want to write x = y + z, end of the story. Like in a Excel sheet, just write the formulas and that's it. No useStates, hooks, componentShouldUpdate(), and other wierd stuff. Svelte is to React what Pluto is to Jupyter Notebooks, less popular because of legacy, but, in my opinion, obviously more elegant & cleaner |
The state management in Svelte is fantastic.