{"slug": "svelte", "name": "Svelte", "category": "dev-libs", "category_name": "Libraries and frameworks", "description": "Compiler-based JavaScript UI framework for building web apps, with SvelteKit as its app framework.", "recommenders": 23, "commenters": 33, "warners": 3, "score": 20.716, "rising": 9.73, "first": "2025-11-13", "latest": "2026-10-07", "why": "Loved for a pleasant developer experience that stays close to plain HTML, CSS and JS, with easy reactivity and fast-loading sites.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 23, "neutral": 7, "compare": 1, "warn": 2}, "spark": [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 4, 1, 1, 11], "listed": true, "loved": ["Developer experience", "Close to web platform"], "caveat": "Tooling support", "short_quote": "All of my personal projects use Svelte, and I finally, blessedly applied for a job recently where Svelte was their frontend framework of choice.", "icon": true, "domain": "svelte.dev", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://svelte.dev", "pricing": "open source", "aliases": ["Svelte"], "verdict": [{"text": "Loved for a pleasant developer experience that stays close to plain HTML, CSS and JS,", "cites": [{"id": 768469264, "item_id": 48029329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029329", "by": "yassiniz", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's a pleasure to use, I especially like how similar it is to writing plain HTML / CSS / JS.", "excerpt": "Been using Svelte for a while now on my side projects. It's a pleasure to use, I especially like how similar it is to writing plain HTML / CSS / JS. I remember getting kind of nostalgic when I first tried it", "context": "", "use_case": "side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Introducing Svelte (2016)"}, {"id": 782308256, "item_id": 48894266, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894266", "by": "andrew-dc", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Svelte struck the right DX balance for me between helpful framework tools and features", "excerpt": "My experience with Svelte has been similar. Svelte struck the right DX balance for me between helpful framework tools and features, but not far removed from vanilla JS, HTML, and CSS. And sure, there is a build step. I have never felt like this was a problem with Svelte, but then I don't have experience working on a colossal Svelte app. Does it become one?", "context": "", "use_case": "building SPAs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Vanilla JavaScript"}, {"id": 798860336, "item_id": 49928771, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928771", "by": "stillatit", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the hands-on developer experience of programming in Svelte.", "excerpt": "I love the hands-on developer experience of programming in Svelte. But since we're in October of 2026 I have to ask, is the vibe-coding experience in Svelte any different than in React? Can anyone with experience in both comment?", "context": "", "use_case": "web development", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 781934672, "item_id": 48870917, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870917", "by": "jhartikainen", "date": "2026-07-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I use Svelte the tool \"disappears into the background\"", "excerpt": "This is a very interesting idea, partially because I recently wrote about how Svelte is kind of \"invisible\" as a tool for writing webapps (compared to f.ex. React). Much like gingerBill says here, when I use Svelte the tool \"disappears into the background\", at least for me. Something I was hoping this would discuss is why do good tools feel invisible? But doesn't seem like it really went into that.", "context": "", "use_case": "writing webapps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Good Tools Are Invisible"}]}, {"text": " with easy reactivity and fast-loading sites.", "cites": [{"id": 772390369, "item_id": 48274398, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274398", "by": "beremaki", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If I have the choice I use Svelte because reactivity is much easier with it", "excerpt": "I did love React for freeing me from AngularJS and I fully bought in its idiosyncrasies. But now I just use it to get paid cause it's the standard and I know it well. In my experience keeping a large React codebase simple requires some skills that are clearly not universal. If I have the choice I use Svelte because reactivity is much easier with it and it includes most of what I need to focus on building things.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "Does Anybody Actually Like React?"}, {"id": 798917088, "item_id": 49932318, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932318", "by": "rukshn", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for my latest project I started using Svelte and I love it.", "excerpt": "I was a long time Vue fan. I used svelte when it was V1 but the changes in V2 put me off. Where vue was stable. But for my latest project I started using Svelte and I love it. https://github.com/entangle-cloud/wave I love that stores comes out of the box and works well. No more callbacks for two way binding and Vue $emit hacks.", "context": "long time Vue fan", "use_case": "latest project", "switched_from": "Vue", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798887792, "item_id": 49930487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930487", "by": "spieke", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The speed is what I love about Svelte websites. I checked out orb.net; the pages load instantly!", "excerpt": "The speed is what I love about Svelte websites. I checked out orb.net; the pages load instantly! I rarely see that with websites built with other frameworks.", "context": "", "use_case": "websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798871073, "item_id": 49929442, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929442", "by": "tonyoconnell", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Svelte is very fast and elegant.", "excerpt": "This is why I switched to Astro/React in 2024. I wonder where I would be now if I had stuck things out. Svelte is very fast and elegant. I found that I can use Astro for anything I thought I might need NextJS for though.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is that its custom syntax leaves tooling behind,", "cites": [{"id": 798941232, "item_id": 49933827, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933827", "by": "pier25", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Svelte's biggest strength is also its biggest issue. Having a custom language means so much effort is needed to build and maintain custom tooling to support it.", "excerpt": "I used Svelte daily as my main framework between 2020 and 2024. Took me a couple of years to realize Svelte's biggest strength is also its biggest issue. Having a custom language means so much effort is needed to build and maintain custom tooling to support it. And not only from the small Svelte team and its community. Eg: Even to this day, the Svelte plugin by JetBrains is trash [2]. If you want to do Svelte you're ", "context": "used Svelte daily 2020-2024", "use_case": "web framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798928770, "item_id": 49933048, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933048", "by": "brachkow", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Svelte, on the other hand, still works badly with Storybook and linters.", "excerpt": "I use React, Vue, and Svelte extensively, and I don't think that there is any problem with integrating 3rd party JS libraries in any of these frameworks. React, as the most bare-bones framework, might be simplest to integrate, and you can see that by the enormous size of its ecosystem. Vue and Svelte will have problems with integrating various devtools, due to the fact they use custom syntax to mimic native web tech.", "context": "Uses React, Vue, and Svelte extensively", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}]}, {"text": " with weak JetBrains, Storybook and linter support.", "cites": [{"id": 798941232, "item_id": 49933827, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933827", "by": "pier25", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Svelte's biggest strength is also its biggest issue. Having a custom language means so much effort is needed to build and maintain custom tooling to support it.", "excerpt": "I used Svelte daily as my main framework between 2020 and 2024. Took me a couple of years to realize Svelte's biggest strength is also its biggest issue. Having a custom language means so much effort is needed to build and maintain custom tooling to support it. And not only from the small Svelte team and its community. Eg: Even to this day, the Svelte plugin by JetBrains is trash [2]. If you want to do Svelte you're ", "context": "used Svelte daily 2020-2024", "use_case": "web framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798928770, "item_id": 49933048, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933048", "by": "brachkow", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Svelte, on the other hand, still works badly with Storybook and linters.", "excerpt": "I use React, Vue, and Svelte extensively, and I don't think that there is any problem with integrating 3rd party JS libraries in any of these frameworks. React, as the most bare-bones framework, might be simplest to integrate, and you can see that by the enormous size of its ecosystem. Vue and Svelte will have problems with integrating various devtools, due to the fact they use custom syntax to mimic native web tech.", "context": "Uses React, Vue, and Svelte extensively", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Developer experience", "summary": "Commenters describe Svelte as a pleasure to use, a tool that disappears into the background.", "quotes": [{"id": 798860336, "item_id": 49928771, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928771", "by": "stillatit", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the hands-on developer experience of programming in Svelte.", "excerpt": "I love the hands-on developer experience of programming in Svelte. But since we're in October of 2026 I have to ask, is the vibe-coding experience in Svelte any different than in React? Can anyone with experience in both comment?", "context": "", "use_case": "web development", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 781934672, "item_id": 48870917, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870917", "by": "jhartikainen", "date": "2026-07-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I use Svelte the tool \"disappears into the background\"", "excerpt": "This is a very interesting idea, partially because I recently wrote about how Svelte is kind of \"invisible\" as a tool for writing webapps (compared to f.ex. React). Much like gingerBill says here, when I use Svelte the tool \"disappears into the background\", at least for me. Something I was hoping this would discuss is why do good tools feel invisible? But doesn't seem like it really went into that.", "context": "", "use_case": "writing webapps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Good Tools Are Invisible"}, {"id": 794213312, "item_id": 49638332, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638332", "by": "prophesi", "date": "2026-09-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For personal projects, I love Svelte.", "excerpt": "The lack of single-file components is one of several reasons I wouldn't reach for React prior to the LLM craze[0]. For personal projects, I love Svelte. You wouldn't need tailwind there for the reasons proposed given their support for it. [0] Things have probably changed, but Svelte 5 was a litmus test for how recent the data cutoff was for an LLM model. Meanwhile React _especially_ has no reason to change how the fr", "context": "", "use_case": "personal projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Shopify acquires Tailwind"}]}, {"label": "Close to web platform", "summary": "Writing Svelte feels similar to plain HTML, CSS and JS while still solving common problems.", "quotes": [{"id": 768469264, "item_id": 48029329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029329", "by": "yassiniz", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's a pleasure to use, I especially like how similar it is to writing plain HTML / CSS / JS.", "excerpt": "Been using Svelte for a while now on my side projects. It's a pleasure to use, I especially like how similar it is to writing plain HTML / CSS / JS. I remember getting kind of nostalgic when I first tried it", "context": "", "use_case": "side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Introducing Svelte (2016)"}, {"id": 782308256, "item_id": 48894266, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894266", "by": "andrew-dc", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Svelte struck the right DX balance for me between helpful framework tools and features", "excerpt": "My experience with Svelte has been similar. Svelte struck the right DX balance for me between helpful framework tools and features, but not far removed from vanilla JS, HTML, and CSS. And sure, there is a build step. I have never felt like this was a problem with Svelte, but then I don't have experience working on a colossal Svelte app. Does it become one?", "context": "", "use_case": "building SPAs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Vanilla JavaScript"}, {"id": 782221984, "item_id": 48888874, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888874", "by": "pikeangler", "date": "2026-07-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Svelte 5 (without SvelteKit) for my SPA's", "excerpt": "I use Svelte 5 (without SvelteKit) for my SPA's, after doing my first SPA in vanilla JS. Then I discovered Svelte. Svelte is very close to the platform and still solves a lot of problems: for reactivity, modularity and CSS cascading (and in version 5 it is not too \"magical\"). A lot of the critique of frameworks in this article does not apply to Svelte.", "context": "", "use_case": "building SPAs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Vanilla JavaScript"}]}, {"label": "Speed", "summary": "Svelte sites are called very fast, with pages that load instantly and no virtual DOM overhead.", "quotes": [{"id": 798887792, "item_id": 49930487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930487", "by": "spieke", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The speed is what I love about Svelte websites. I checked out orb.net; the pages load instantly!", "excerpt": "The speed is what I love about Svelte websites. I checked out orb.net; the pages load instantly! I rarely see that with websites built with other frameworks.", "context": "", "use_case": "websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798871073, "item_id": 49929442, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929442", "by": "tonyoconnell", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Svelte is very fast and elegant.", "excerpt": "This is why I switched to Astro/React in 2024. I wonder where I would be now if I had stuck things out. Svelte is very fast and elegant. I found that I can use Astro for anything I thought I might need NextJS for though.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 799233761, "item_id": 49952110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952110", "by": "josephg", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think solid and svelte are better", "excerpt": "I should probably be more balanced when criticising react. React moved the state of the art forward when it came out. Compared to the other options we had at the time, it was excellent. But it's not better now. At least not for technical reasons. > Superior how? Runtime costs? Sure, but it does beg the question how much. Will a well-optimized Svelte app feel much better than a well-optimized React app? Virtual dom di", "context": "", "use_case": "building web UIs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why don't more developers \u201cuse the platform\u201d?"}]}, {"label": "Simple reactivity", "summary": "Reactivity is seen as easier than in React, with stores built in and runes making syntax clearer.", "quotes": [{"id": 772390369, "item_id": 48274398, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274398", "by": "beremaki", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If I have the choice I use Svelte because reactivity is much easier with it", "excerpt": "I did love React for freeing me from AngularJS and I fully bought in its idiosyncrasies. But now I just use it to get paid cause it's the standard and I know it well. In my experience keeping a large React codebase simple requires some skills that are clearly not universal. If I have the choice I use Svelte because reactivity is much easier with it and it includes most of what I need to focus on building things.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "Does Anybody Actually Like React?"}, {"id": 798917088, "item_id": 49932318, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932318", "by": "rukshn", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for my latest project I started using Svelte and I love it.", "excerpt": "I was a long time Vue fan. I used svelte when it was V1 but the changes in V2 put me off. Where vue was stable. But for my latest project I started using Svelte and I love it. https://github.com/entangle-cloud/wave I love that stores comes out of the box and works well. No more callbacks for two way binding and Vue $emit hacks.", "context": "long time Vue fan", "use_case": "latest project", "switched_from": "Vue", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 747926464, "item_id": 46745404, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745404", "by": "Leftium", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Runes allowed simpler Svelte syntax while making it more clear, consistent, flexible, and composable.", "excerpt": "Svelte used to have compile-time reactivity, but switched to runtime reactivity via signals: https://svelte.dev/blog/runes I'm curious if Coi will also suffer from the drawbacks of compile-time reactivity. Or as its own language that doesn't have to \"fit\" into JS, can Coi side-step the disadvantages via syntax? Runes allowed simpler Svelte syntax while making it more clear, consistent, flexible, and composable. Suppo", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Coi \u2013 A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue"}]}, {"label": "SvelteKit apps", "summary": "SvelteKit is used for complex apps and SSR, including desktop and mobile apps via Wails or Capacitor.", "quotes": [{"id": 798849265, "item_id": 49928079, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928079", "by": "jamies", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use Svelte extensively at Orb.net for our website", "excerpt": "Such a great project. I converted my React-enjoying cofounders to Svelte/SvelteKit worried they wouldn't like it, but they absolutely love it! We use Svelte extensively at Orb.net for our website (duh), but also as a framework for our desktop and mobile apps. Wails serves our golang and SvelteKit/Svelte provide the UX. It's been tremendous for multiplatform productivity, and binaries are less than 20mb! Nothing like ", "context": "startup founder at Orb.net", "use_case": "website, desktop and mobile UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 772493856, "item_id": 48280866, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280866", "by": "bryanhogan", "date": "2026-05-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like Svelte and have been using SvelteKit for more complex apps.", "excerpt": "I really like Svelte and have been using SvelteKit for more complex apps. I've found it to be a great improvement over many cases where I would have used React before. Svelte feels much easier to learn for someone who already knows the basics of web development, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. But nowadays I often see people start learning web development by learning React, which feels a bit backwards. Personally I have b", "context": "", "use_case": "web apps", "switched_from": "React", "story": "Does Anybody Actually Like React?"}, {"id": 798860000, "item_id": 49928750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928750", "by": "brachkow", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Svelte is a good framework, but most of the DX praise comes from React folk.", "excerpt": "I do. I wrote on this extensively there \u2013 https://www.brachkow.com/notes/my-experience-with-svelte/ In short: 1. Svelte is a good framework, but most of the DX praise comes from React folk. In my experience, Svelte is less polished and less comfortable to work with than Vue. 2. The biggest problem with Vue is that your choice of SSR frameworks is limited to Nuxt, and Nuxt is, to put it mildly... not a good framework.", "context": "has used both Svelte and Vue", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Tooling support", "summary": "Its custom language means weak JetBrains support and poor integration with Storybook and linters.", "quotes": [{"id": 798941232, "item_id": 49933827, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933827", "by": "pier25", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Svelte's biggest strength is also its biggest issue. Having a custom language means so much effort is needed to build and maintain custom tooling to support it.", "excerpt": "I used Svelte daily as my main framework between 2020 and 2024. Took me a couple of years to realize Svelte's biggest strength is also its biggest issue. Having a custom language means so much effort is needed to build and maintain custom tooling to support it. And not only from the small Svelte team and its community. Eg: Even to this day, the Svelte plugin by JetBrains is trash [2]. If you want to do Svelte you're ", "context": "used Svelte daily 2020-2024", "use_case": "web framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798928770, "item_id": 49933048, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933048", "by": "brachkow", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Svelte, on the other hand, still works badly with Storybook and linters.", "excerpt": "I use React, Vue, and Svelte extensively, and I don't think that there is any problem with integrating 3rd party JS libraries in any of these frameworks. React, as the most bare-bones framework, might be simplest to integrate, and you can see that by the enormous size of its ecosystem. Vue and Svelte will have problems with integrating various devtools, due to the fact they use custom syntax to mimic native web tech.", "context": "Uses React, Vue, and Svelte extensively", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}]}, {"label": "Not for everyone", "summary": "Some commenters tried Svelte and it never clicked or they did not like it.", "quotes": [{"id": 798865281, "item_id": 49929080, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929080", "by": "phoghed", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I tried Svelte a couple times over the years, never really clicked for me though.", "excerpt": "I used mainly Vue from 0.12 until 3 (migrated one project to 3 but didn\u2019t work with it extensively), with a bit of react sprinkled in. Mainly react the last 4 years or so, which let\u2019s be honest is mainly not me writing the code. I tried Svelte a couple times over the years, never really clicked for me though.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 799287314, "item_id": 49955457, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955457", "by": "shepherdjerred", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I didn\u2019t really like Svelte", "excerpt": "I haven\u2019t found a front end library I like more than React except maybe Astro. I didn\u2019t really like Svelte and I am pretty opposed to htmx. It is certainly better than Angular and Vue, though Vue 3 is tolerable. Maybe there are more popular options nowadays but tbh I am not really looking to move from React. I have zero complaints other than maybe the push towards server rendering and partnering with Next.js React is", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why don't more developers \u201cuse the platform\u201d?"}]}, {"label": "Less polished", "summary": "One commenter who used both found Svelte less polished and comfortable to work with than Vue.", "quotes": [{"id": 798860000, "item_id": 49928750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928750", "by": "brachkow", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Svelte is a good framework, but most of the DX praise comes from React folk.", "excerpt": "I do. I wrote on this extensively there \u2013 https://www.brachkow.com/notes/my-experience-with-svelte/ In short: 1. Svelte is a good framework, but most of the DX praise comes from React folk. In my experience, Svelte is less polished and less comfortable to work with than Vue. 2. The biggest problem with Vue is that your choice of SSR frameworks is limited to Nuxt, and Nuxt is, to put it mildly... not a good framework.", "context": "has used both Svelte and Vue", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}]}, {"label": "Not batteries-included", "summary": "SvelteKit lacks a built-in ORM, admin and auth, so one commenter returns to Django.", "quotes": [{"id": 788746370, "item_id": 49296648, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296648", "by": "7bit", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Svelte and SvelteKit.", "excerpt": "I love Svelte and SvelteKit. But I keep going back to the batteries-included Django simply for the ORM, the admin backend and authentication packages. Nothing in the JS ecosystem comes close to it and using third party modules always feels hacky and they pull in a thousand other dependencies. I wish SvelteKit would become batteries-included, but that's not the direction they have in mind -- which is totally fair. It ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is here"}]}, {"label": "Version changes", "summary": "Major-version changes put one user off, and another is checking upgrades for performance regressions.", "quotes": [{"id": 798917088, "item_id": 49932318, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932318", "by": "rukshn", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for my latest project I started using Svelte and I love it.", "excerpt": "I was a long time Vue fan. I used svelte when it was V1 but the changes in V2 put me off. Where vue was stable. But for my latest project I started using Svelte and I love it. https://github.com/entangle-cloud/wave I love that stores comes out of the box and works well. No more callbacks for two way binding and Vue $emit hacks.", "context": "long time Vue fan", "use_case": "latest project", "switched_from": "Vue", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 776482288, "item_id": 48530143, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530143", "by": "division_by_0", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Trying to upgrade my data viz project [0] from Svelte 5.35.7 (pre async) to the latest version", "excerpt": "Trying to upgrade my data viz project [0] from Svelte 5.35.7 (pre async) to the latest version and making sure that the performance is not negatively affected (e.g. [1]). [0] https://cybernetic.dev [1] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/17176", "context": "", "use_case": "data visualization project", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? 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They had voted on an LLM policy and decided against vibe-coded repos while allowing some AI use. This got me thinking how I want to use AI and if it fit with their policy. The best I could figure is that I like to start with requirements, use AI to discuss and settle on its high level design and specific aspects of its implementation. I", "context": "", "use_case": "web frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "Reasons to Dislike AI Coding"}, {"id": 799287314, "item_id": 49955457, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955457", "by": "shepherdjerred", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I didn\u2019t really like Svelte", "excerpt": "I haven\u2019t found a front end library I like more than React except maybe Astro. I didn\u2019t really like Svelte and I am pretty opposed to htmx. It is certainly better than Angular and Vue, though Vue 3 is tolerable. Maybe there are more popular options nowadays but tbh I am not really looking to move from React. I have zero complaints other than maybe the push towards server rendering and partnering with Next.js React is", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why don't more developers \u201cuse the platform\u201d?"}, {"id": 799233761, "item_id": 49952110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952110", "by": "josephg", "date": "2026-10-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think solid and svelte are better", "excerpt": "I should probably be more balanced when criticising react. React moved the state of the art forward when it came out. Compared to the other options we had at the time, it was excellent. But it's not better now. At least not for technical reasons. > Superior how? Runtime costs? Sure, but it does beg the question how much. Will a well-optimized Svelte app feel much better than a well-optimized React app? Virtual dom di", "context": "", "use_case": "building web UIs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why don't more developers \u201cuse the platform\u201d?"}, {"id": 798954337, "item_id": 49934646, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934646", "by": "Fergusonb", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Svelte / Sveltekit helped programming \"click\" for me", "excerpt": "Thanks for your hard work, as well as the team. Svelte / Sveltekit helped programming \"click\" for me , and years later I'm doing work I love for people who appreciate it. SK is my favorite starting point for almost everything I build.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend development", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798941232, "item_id": 49933827, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933827", "by": "pier25", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Svelte's biggest strength is also its biggest issue. Having a custom language means so much effort is needed to build and maintain custom tooling to support it.", "excerpt": "I used Svelte daily as my main framework between 2020 and 2024. Took me a couple of years to realize Svelte's biggest strength is also its biggest issue. Having a custom language means so much effort is needed to build and maintain custom tooling to support it. And not only from the small Svelte team and its community. Eg: Even to this day, the Svelte plugin by JetBrains is trash [2]. If you want to do Svelte you're ", "context": "used Svelte daily 2020-2024", "use_case": "web framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798928770, "item_id": 49933048, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933048", "by": "brachkow", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Svelte, on the other hand, still works badly with Storybook and linters.", "excerpt": "I use React, Vue, and Svelte extensively, and I don't think that there is any problem with integrating 3rd party JS libraries in any of these frameworks. React, as the most bare-bones framework, might be simplest to integrate, and you can see that by the enormous size of its ecosystem. Vue and Svelte will have problems with integrating various devtools, due to the fact they use custom syntax to mimic native web tech.", "context": "Uses React, Vue, and Svelte extensively", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798917088, "item_id": 49932318, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932318", "by": "rukshn", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "for my latest project I started using Svelte and I love it.", "excerpt": "I was a long time Vue fan. I used svelte when it was V1 but the changes in V2 put me off. Where vue was stable. But for my latest project I started using Svelte and I love it. https://github.com/entangle-cloud/wave I love that stores comes out of the box and works well. No more callbacks for two way binding and Vue $emit hacks.", "context": "long time Vue fan", "use_case": "latest project", "switched_from": "Vue", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798898705, "item_id": 49931169, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931169", "by": "sureglymop", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Using Svelte in astro even feels nicer to me.", "excerpt": "I still use Svelte but I switched to Astro too. I think the best thing about it is that its devs are focused on building primarily a good ssg. The Svelte people are primarily building a frontend framework and added sveltekit as an addition. Using Svelte in astro even feels nicer to me.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798888736, "item_id": 49930546, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930546", "by": "nathias", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love svelte, but I think in the world of agents programmer ergonomics is no longer relevant.", "excerpt": "I love svelte, but I think in the world of agents programmer ergonomics is no longer relevant.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798887792, "item_id": 49930487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930487", "by": "spieke", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The speed is what I love about Svelte websites. I checked out orb.net; the pages load instantly!", "excerpt": "The speed is what I love about Svelte websites. I checked out orb.net; the pages load instantly! I rarely see that with websites built with other frameworks.", "context": "", "use_case": "websites", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798871073, "item_id": 49929442, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929442", "by": "tonyoconnell", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Svelte is very fast and elegant.", "excerpt": "This is why I switched to Astro/React in 2024. I wonder where I would be now if I had stuck things out. Svelte is very fast and elegant. I found that I can use Astro for anything I thought I might need NextJS for though.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798865281, "item_id": 49929080, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929080", "by": "phoghed", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I tried Svelte a couple times over the years, never really clicked for me though.", "excerpt": "I used mainly Vue from 0.12 until 3 (migrated one project to 3 but didn\u2019t work with it extensively), with a bit of react sprinkled in. Mainly react the last 4 years or so, which let\u2019s be honest is mainly not me writing the code. I tried Svelte a couple times over the years, never really clicked for me though.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798860336, "item_id": 49928771, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928771", "by": "stillatit", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love the hands-on developer experience of programming in Svelte.", "excerpt": "I love the hands-on developer experience of programming in Svelte. But since we're in October of 2026 I have to ask, is the vibe-coding experience in Svelte any different than in React? Can anyone with experience in both comment?", "context": "", "use_case": "web development", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798860000, "item_id": 49928750, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928750", "by": "brachkow", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Svelte is a good framework, but most of the DX praise comes from React folk.", "excerpt": "I do. I wrote on this extensively there \u2013 https://www.brachkow.com/notes/my-experience-with-svelte/ In short: 1. Svelte is a good framework, but most of the DX praise comes from React folk. In my experience, Svelte is less polished and less comfortable to work with than Vue. 2. The biggest problem with Vue is that your choice of SSR frameworks is limited to Nuxt, and Nuxt is, to put it mildly... not a good framework.", "context": "has used both Svelte and Vue", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798849265, "item_id": 49928079, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928079", "by": "jamies", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "We use Svelte extensively at Orb.net for our website", "excerpt": "Such a great project. I converted my React-enjoying cofounders to Svelte/SvelteKit worried they wouldn't like it, but they absolutely love it! We use Svelte extensively at Orb.net for our website (duh), but also as a framework for our desktop and mobile apps. Wails serves our golang and SvelteKit/Svelte provide the UX. It's been tremendous for multiplatform productivity, and binaries are less than 20mb! Nothing like ", "context": "startup founder at Orb.net", "use_case": "website, desktop and mobile UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "SvelteKit 3"}, {"id": 798797825, "item_id": 49924864, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924864", "by": "36f", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My stack of choice would be FastAPI + Svelte + PostgreSQL", "excerpt": "I'm currently building and maintaining 36flats.de (https://codeberg.org/MagnoliaElectricCo/flathunter) and am looking for a new local position as a back end or full stack engineer, data engineer or similar. I worked in health tech in the past, and this project sparked my interest in working with geospatial data and building data pipelines. I'm happy to hear about your leads in either of those fields, or anything else", "context": "back end / full stack engineer job seeker", "use_case": "front end development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 798797504, "item_id": 49924844, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924844", "by": "bongripper", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Enjoy working with Python and Svelte the most", "excerpt": "I'm currently building and maintaining 36flats.de (https://codeberg.org/MagnoliaElectricCo/flathunter) and looking for a new local position as a back end or full stack engineer, data engineer or similar. I've worked in health tech in the past, and this project sparked my interest in working with geospatial data and building data pipelines. I'm happy to hear about your leads in either of those fields, or anything else", "context": "back end / full stack engineer job seeker", "use_case": "front end development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)"}, {"id": 794300497, "item_id": 49643781, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643781", "by": "queenkjuul", "date": "2026-09-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've been using tailwind with svelte at work for years now", "excerpt": "You wouldn't need tailwind for svelte, but I've been using tailwind with svelte at work for years now and really like it", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Shopify acquires Tailwind"}, {"id": 794213312, "item_id": 49638332, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638332", "by": "prophesi", "date": "2026-09-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "For personal projects, I love Svelte.", "excerpt": "The lack of single-file components is one of several reasons I wouldn't reach for React prior to the LLM craze[0]. For personal projects, I love Svelte. You wouldn't need tailwind there for the reasons proposed given their support for it. [0] Things have probably changed, but Svelte 5 was a litmus test for how recent the data cutoff was for an LLM model. Meanwhile React _especially_ has no reason to change how the fr", "context": "", "use_case": "personal projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Shopify acquires Tailwind"}, {"id": 791853714, "item_id": 49490857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490857", "by": "cbenz", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "In web front-end dev, I'm using Svelte", "excerpt": "Keyboard driven, and a lot more! I love the following patterns for GUIs: - command-driven (e.g. command palette of VSCode) - keyboard shortcuts call commands, are customisable - scriptable: ability to call those commands from the outside, controlling the running app, for example with CLI calling D-Bus (or socket), and not necessarily having macros from inside the GUI - reorganisable: the different GUI elements like p", "context": "web front-end developer", "use_case": "web front-end development", "switched_from": "", "story": "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"}, {"id": 788746370, "item_id": 49296648, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296648", "by": "7bit", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Svelte and SvelteKit.", "excerpt": "I love Svelte and SvelteKit. But I keep going back to the batteries-included Django simply for the ORM, the admin backend and authentication packages. Nothing in the JS ecosystem comes close to it and using third party modules always feels hacky and they pull in a thousand other dependencies. I wish SvelteKit would become batteries-included, but that's not the direction they have in mind -- which is totally fair. It ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The SvelteKit 3 Release Candidate is here"}, {"id": 785182161, "item_id": 49073885, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073885", "by": "jackhalford", "date": "2026-07-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "had to migrate to svelte for storybook for development", "excerpt": "I used htmx but had to migrate to svelte for storybook for development, I wish htmx had that sort of tooling", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend development with Storybook", "switched_from": "htmx", "story": "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity"}, {"id": 782308256, "item_id": 48894266, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894266", "by": "andrew-dc", "date": "2026-07-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Svelte struck the right DX balance for me between helpful framework tools and features", "excerpt": "My experience with Svelte has been similar. Svelte struck the right DX balance for me between helpful framework tools and features, but not far removed from vanilla JS, HTML, and CSS. And sure, there is a build step. I have never felt like this was a problem with Svelte, but then I don't have experience working on a colossal Svelte app. Does it become one?", "context": "", "use_case": "building SPAs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Vanilla JavaScript"}, {"id": 782221984, "item_id": 48888874, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888874", "by": "pikeangler", "date": "2026-07-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Svelte 5 (without SvelteKit) for my SPA's", "excerpt": "I use Svelte 5 (without SvelteKit) for my SPA's, after doing my first SPA in vanilla JS. Then I discovered Svelte. Svelte is very close to the platform and still solves a lot of problems: for reactivity, modularity and CSS cascading (and in version 5 it is not too \"magical\"). A lot of the critique of frameworks in this article does not apply to Svelte.", "context": "", "use_case": "building SPAs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Vanilla JavaScript"}, {"id": 781934672, "item_id": 48870917, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870917", "by": "jhartikainen", "date": "2026-07-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "when I use Svelte the tool \"disappears into the background\"", "excerpt": "This is a very interesting idea, partially because I recently wrote about how Svelte is kind of \"invisible\" as a tool for writing webapps (compared to f.ex. React). Much like gingerBill says here, when I use Svelte the tool \"disappears into the background\", at least for me. Something I was hoping this would discuss is why do good tools feel invisible? But doesn't seem like it really went into that.", "context": "", "use_case": "writing webapps", "switched_from": "", "story": "Good Tools Are Invisible"}, {"id": 776482288, "item_id": 48530143, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530143", "by": "division_by_0", "date": "2026-06-14", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Trying to upgrade my data viz project [0] from Svelte 5.35.7 (pre async) to the latest version", "excerpt": "Trying to upgrade my data viz project [0] from Svelte 5.35.7 (pre async) to the latest version and making sure that the performance is not negatively affected (e.g. [1]). [0] https://cybernetic.dev [1] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/17176", "context": "", "use_case": "data visualization project", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 772493856, "item_id": 48280866, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280866", "by": "bryanhogan", "date": "2026-05-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like Svelte and have been using SvelteKit for more complex apps.", "excerpt": "I really like Svelte and have been using SvelteKit for more complex apps. I've found it to be a great improvement over many cases where I would have used React before. Svelte feels much easier to learn for someone who already knows the basics of web development, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. But nowadays I often see people start learning web development by learning React, which feels a bit backwards. Personally I have b", "context": "", "use_case": "web apps", "switched_from": "React", "story": "Does Anybody Actually Like React?"}, {"id": 772399665, "item_id": 48274979, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274979", "by": "mbgerring", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "All of my personal projects use Svelte, and I finally, blessedly applied for a job recently where Svelte was their frontend framework of choice.", "excerpt": "React seemed like a bad idea when it came out, and a much worse idea once I started using it day to day. All of my personal projects use Svelte, and I finally, blessedly applied for a job recently where Svelte was their frontend framework of choice. htmx also felt great the one time I used it. HTML, CSS and a scripting language inly for progressive enhancement are such beautiful, pure ideas, and learning frontend at ", "context": "", "use_case": "personal projects frontend", "switched_from": "React", "story": "Does Anybody Actually Like React?"}, {"id": 772390369, "item_id": 48274398, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274398", "by": "beremaki", "date": "2026-05-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If I have the choice I use Svelte because reactivity is much easier with it", "excerpt": "I did love React for freeing me from AngularJS and I fully bought in its idiosyncrasies. But now I just use it to get paid cause it's the standard and I know it well. In my experience keeping a large React codebase simple requires some skills that are clearly not universal. If I have the choice I use Svelte because reactivity is much easier with it and it includes most of what I need to focus on building things.", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "Does Anybody Actually Like React?"}, {"id": 768907954, "item_id": 48056747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056747", "by": "snide", "date": "2026-05-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It sits on the shoulder of Svelte and Threlte (Three.js) for most of the hard stuff.", "excerpt": "Counter Slayer uses the same UI library I hand built for Table Slayer[0], so it was a little easier for me to get that one going. I used to run design for Elastic, and built their React design library (with some great coworkers) so I'm used to heavy visualization work (having redesigned Kibana years ago). It's just fun for me to take all that experience and build weird little projects as far as I can take them! I bui", "context": "", "use_case": "building UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Creating for a niche"}, {"id": 768469264, "item_id": 48029329, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029329", "by": "yassiniz", "date": "2026-05-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's a pleasure to use, I especially like how similar it is to writing plain HTML / CSS / JS.", "excerpt": "Been using Svelte for a while now on my side projects. It's a pleasure to use, I especially like how similar it is to writing plain HTML / CSS / JS. I remember getting kind of nostalgic when I first tried it", "context": "", "use_case": "side projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Introducing Svelte (2016)"}, {"id": 747926464, "item_id": 46745404, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745404", "by": "Leftium", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Runes allowed simpler Svelte syntax while making it more clear, consistent, flexible, and composable.", "excerpt": "Svelte used to have compile-time reactivity, but switched to runtime reactivity via signals: https://svelte.dev/blog/runes I'm curious if Coi will also suffer from the drawbacks of compile-time reactivity. Or as its own language that doesn't have to \"fit\" into JS, can Coi side-step the disadvantages via syntax? Runes allowed simpler Svelte syntax while making it more clear, consistent, flexible, and composable. Suppo", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Coi \u2013 A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue"}, {"id": 745031793, "item_id": 46564487, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46564487", "by": "bovermyer", "date": "2026-01-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have a \"forever project\" written in TS and Svelte", "excerpt": "I have a \"forever project\" written in TS and Svelte that uses vite, eslint, prettier, and Node.js. I love playing with new things. What would be the fastest new combo? TS+Svelte+deno? Is there something that replaces vite?", "context": "", "use_case": "frontend framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Performance Revolution in JavaScript Tooling"}, {"id": 734766720, "item_id": 45922920, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922920", "by": "jumski", "date": "2025-11-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Svelte and I just used it to implement the recent demo for pgflow", "excerpt": "Does apps integrate with Supabase? Also, do you have a way to vibe code multi step workflows? Curious, as I love Svelte and I just used it to implement the recent demo for pgflow (https://demo.pgflow.dev) and it was a breeze to integrate!", "context": "", "use_case": "building web demo UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: V0 for Svelte (svelte0), a Svelte UI generator"}]}