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by husarcik 501 days ago
I agree with everything you highlighted!

I'll add that my career isn't programming. However, Svelte let's me come back to my code base and understand everything, even after months. There is minimal framework related syntax to retain in my memory. Just have to know typescript well and that's it. Additionally, I don't need to retain all the rendering gotchas that other frameworks (eg, react) have. This has changed slightly with runes but I find them pretty easy to refresh on if I find im confused.

For me, this trade-off is well worth the limited availability of third party libraries. I wish someone would create a Laravel-like extension for Sveltekit. If I could just pull in user login flows, hashing, mail, etc all from organized Laravel-like docs, Sveltekit would be perfect for full-stack.