I asked a frontend friend what framework he would recommend if he was starting a new project today. He said #svelte, so I spent the afternoon walking through their online tutorial and playing around with #sveltekit.
I've got to say, as someone with fairly rudimentary JS skills, it was a great experience. It feels a lot closer to HTML/CSS and a lot simpler than a lot of the other JS frameworks.
hello happy (belated) new year! I've been wanting to learn #svelte for a while and figured today is as good a day as any and I'm already so delighting in their tutorial it's so good 😊
🎉 New blog post! For a few months now I've been toying with an idea for a new #Svelte framework for #datavisualization -- heavily inspired by the great Observable Plot. Very curious to hear what you think about this.
@smn personally, I'm deep in love with #Svelte. Leverages the breadth of the JS ecosystem, and everything about it feels like simple HTML supercharged for the modern world
Got reason to look into svelte-check, the #linting tool for #Svelte projects, and I must say – their approach is intriguing.
It’s essentially invoking Language Service (#lsp) diagnostics for all the files and using the diagnostics output from the TypeScript, HTML and CSS language services to determine if there's an error or not.
In other words: Mimicking how eg. VSCode does to report errors and warnings in its UI.
This is a very interesting approach compared to eg. @eslint parsers
Team at Afrolabs is unexpectedly #lookingforwork: lead, senior and mid level dev with me in a product / tech management role, and a product designer as needed.
Full stack, broad skills:
Web: #python/node/php, #Googlecloud/aws, #react/ #angular/ #svelte, firebase/pg/pub-sub
Chat: openai/llama2, WhatsApp/slack/discord
Senior has android/kotlin depth and some #gamedev skills in unity/unreal
They've worked well together for the last 3+ years across logistics, community and edtech.
2019: react is dead (5M downloads)
2020: react is dead (6M downloads)
2021: react is dead (10M downloads)
2022: react is dead? (15M downloads)
2023: react is … wait (22M downloads)
it’s been bizarre as a person wishing a future without #react for years now, seeing React gain even more marketshare as #vue and #svelte’s growth stall
React comes with unnecessary bloat, has no built-in styling solution, no official toolchain, and unnecessarily abstracts HTML in the dumbest ways. I can’t for the life of me understand why a better solution (Svelte) hasn’t replaced it by now
I think it's time to update my portfolio site after 5 years of neglect.. going to use #svelte / #sveltekit as a bit of a learning exercise. Any recommendations for a simple clean customisable "portfolio" starter template/repo? I'd also like to add an experiments/sketches section too. Thx!