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Svelte compiles with pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - React has way more libraries. React is a progressive JavaScript frontend framework that helps you build complex web UIs. It takes a more behind-the-scenes (magic) style approach where it interprets very basic-looking JavaScript code.

Svelte vs React: Which framework to learn in 2023?

Comparing a React and Svelte project line by line

I’m not sure what the Svelte ecosystem looks like but at a certain point, it’s big enough, it doesn’t have to be the biggest to be perfectly usable. I’ve personally seen Svelte integrations for basically anything I used.
Same goes for performance. React is perfectly acceptable. A vast majority don’t even get to a point where the app requires so much speed that they have to look at throwing out their framework. In most cases, people are just writing poorly optimized code.
I don’t understand this hate for JSX syntax. I think it’s drastically easier to work with overall. It feels like you’re just using Javascript with HTML as a first class citizen. I prefer it over templating syntax of Svelte, Vue, and templating engines.
An important thing to consider is how Svelte code looks at scale. I’m not sure myself, but I’ve seen plenty of tech that looks so simple and straightforward on basic hello world apps, but look horrible and painful to use at scale.
Ultimately, I’m more interested in Solid, but Svelte is definitely a good framework.

I’ll never use React again. Bad practices, slowness and over engineered. Svelte is the way in modern front-end development.

Great comparison. Svelte has a lot to offer.

SvelteKit is the shit!
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