I’ve been a backend and data engineer who got my start in full stack. I’m working on a project and selected Svelte for the front end after trying to learn React. I agree 100%. Svelte is great. Even 5 with its warts isn’t as bad as react.
Kit on the other hand has been a major pain. You won’t need a webserver oh wait you do! You have to make drastic tradeoffs when choosing between full SPA and SSR render only. Server side pre-rendering seems like middle ground nightmare that I just I don’t think I can tackle sufficiently right now. I need to get an MVP.
The (browser) issue is a symptom of this greater problem - it’s just not clear what runs on the server side and what doesn’t. The documentation is very poor on this and blogs are flat out wrong.
Kit on the other hand has been a major pain. You won’t need a webserver oh wait you do! You have to make drastic tradeoffs when choosing between full SPA and SSR render only. Server side pre-rendering seems like middle ground nightmare that I just I don’t think I can tackle sufficiently right now. I need to get an MVP.
The (browser) issue is a symptom of this greater problem - it’s just not clear what runs on the server side and what doesn’t. The documentation is very poor on this and blogs are flat out wrong.