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I watched Rich Harris's "Rethinking reactivity" presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao) and was incredibly impressed.

Has anyone with React/Vue experience used Svelte for a significant project? I'd love to hear about your experience with it.



Yeah - I wrote https://www.beyonk.com in Nuxt first, and I've now rewritten it in Svelte (Sapper).

There are some things which weren't ready when I started, but I worked around them. The overall experience is that Svelte results in faster pages, less code, more predictability, faster builds... overall, it's a better experience.


Other than performance, was the developer experience any different? Just curious!


Nice. I like the SSR and that subsequent page loads are basically just a 5KB fetch of pure content in JSON.

But if I go to a content page (eg. https://www.beyonk.com/uk/6Gb_Kj/guided-ascent-of-curved-rid...), I see that the response is a 286KB blob, mostly consisting of CSS. If I reload the page, I redownload that 286KB blob. Wouldn't it be better to serve the CSS separately so it can be cached across sessions?




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