I had a coffee with a Frontend developer on Monday, and he was telling me how he finds playing with Angular helped him understand React better.
Another framework he mentioned is Svelte. It is something I always wanted to try out, so I decide to give the official quick start tutorial a spin. I started from the beginning and stopped at around the “bindings” part.
It is a very easy framework to get the hang of! Compare with React, the set-up costs is much lower: the syntax is a lot more similar than plain Javascript and HTML, and the file structure is also easier to take in for beginners.
To try out a full project, I chose Fireship.io’s SvelteKit Full Course after watching his YouTube video on Svelte for React Developers.
Just like his wonderful “Code in 100 seconds”, the pace is very fast and the delivery pleasant. I followed along to everything up to the end of “User Management”, which already allows me to play with a simple slide-bar outlining the steps to user authentication.
For the rest, I am likely to just watch the videos first, and then decide to what extent I want to dive deeper. I have recently started a volunteer project using the Next + Supabase stack, so I should devote more time to that.