Svelte is better than react

A lot of frameworks popular this days especially the React that made by facebook in 2013 which dominate the market . I know React is a library if you are just using pure Javascript and not jsx. React is matured enough and tons of website made using it. But, there is still some drawbacks about this framework especially the size. A lot of them says "React is a lightweight library" , I think twice 🤔, why the hell React is lightweight, React DOM is almost 110 kb size minified version. There was even a ditch about this, if you load your react website for the first time watching spinner for 5 seconds or even higher in slower connection is such an annoying experience.

After I learned React, I tried Vue and I am not satisfied on it, it feels weird to me cause you need to put the logic on the strings and not on the curly brackets like I usually do in React. Then, I found Svelte , first I doubt the capabalities of svelte and hate it at the first sight cause there's a syntactic sugar that I don't like. But, after I tried it there's nothing bad I can tell, everything is good and expected.

Things that I like in Svelte

• Easy to learn
• Reactivity
• No Virtual DOM
• Performant
• Small bundle size
• Less Code
• You can easily perform animation without using third party libraries

Comparison between Svelte and React with a simple counter

Svelte

<script>
  let counter = 0
</script>

<button on:click={()=> counter++}>
  {counter}
</button>

React

import { useState } from 'react'

function Counter() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0)

  return <button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>{count}</button>
}

export default Counter

As you can see svelte follow the will of jquery write less, do more as stated by Rich Harris. In react you need export the specific component as default, but in Svelte it was automatically exported and it follow the rule of 1 file 1 component.

Conclusion

If you set aside the popularity of the frameworks, Svelte is the clear winner. As a web developer the easier the frameworks the faster the workflow and svelte fullfill the flaw that I wanted. I personally use svelte in some of my projects now and everything is good as expected. I highly recommend svelte it was a life changing experience as a programmer.