Why I'm Betting on Svelte JS
Over the last decade, the web development world has exploded with a range of new technologies coming onto the scene. Key to this explosion has been the growth of JavaScript as a full-featured, rock solid language. While I still hold some bad memories of the early days of JavaScript in the late '90s and early '00s, the language has undergone some great development to make it crucial to the frontend of modern, interactive web sites and applications (as well as native apps with Electron and the backend with NodeJS).
JavaScript frameworks also played a big role in the last decade's changes. Angular, React, and Vue have all gained their shares of fans, and have done a lot to move the frontend forward. Today, though, I want to write about a newer challenger to these established frameworks: Svelte. Svelte has quickly become my tool of choice for frontend development, and after reading this, hopefully you'll be motivated to give it a spin for yourself.
Technically, though I and most others compare Svelte to the aforementioned JavaScript frameworks, Svelte technically doesn't bill itself as a framework. Currently, Svelte's tagline is "cybernetically enhanced web apps," but it used to bill itself as the "disappearing framework."
