Svelte

Wait, wasn’t the last post about Vue? How have we switched to Svelte already?!? Let me explain. Svelte is a fantastic front-end component library developed originally by Rich Harris of the New York Times. It doesn’t have the widespread popularity that Vue, React and Angular have, but it is growing in notoriety, especially since the release of version 3 in 2019. In my limited world view (of the front-end), it stands out because it has always focused on pre-compilation to provide a … svelte … javascript file rather than including a “run-time” library of javascript code that manipulates the virtual DOM. This is a feature that has since been developed into many frameworks/libraries, but it is what makes Svelte unique. ...