[ryanjshaw]

I hadn't built a proper web app in nearly 10 years until recently. I did do some experiments with React/Redux a while back, and some Angular. While both made logical sense, I found RR quite confusing and Angular very heavyweight.

I tried SvelteKit 2 weeks ago after working through learn.svelte.dev and it immediately appealed to me.

Starting with one file in a route that holds JS, HTML and CSS was great. Breaking it up into components as I went along was natural. I think TailwindCSS helped here too, because I barely had to do any CSS work and could focus on JS and HTML.

It took me a while to understand the value of stores and where to use them, but then I hit upon a use case (big complicated multiple nested tree of mutable data).

After a few refactorings I had a very nice compact and easy to understand solution - nothing like what I experienced with RR and Angular.

[adamnemecek]

I had the same experience. While I understood React principles, I never quite got how to built large things with it.

Svelte clicked after like 3 hours.

Also it's more "fun" than React ever was.

[joshxyz]

to be fair redux is a huge pain in the ass especially for medium to large teams where you have colleagues who misuse it.

there are better libraries out there like zustand or react-query which helps on most of these stuff.