Why I switched from react .js to Svelte and even got close to almost quitting but then what changed.

Posted by solo-builder@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 1 comments

After spending months still in learning react .js and falling for common pitfalls like tutorial hell and not being able to apply the concepts in real world even if I understood them was daunting so

I decided to quit.

Pivoted to UI/UX after that but felt I was missing something in my life, u know, that drive to get up every morning and work on your project. I didn't feel that.

So I switched back to coding for my 1st micro saas, but this time I didn't want to repeat my mistakes. Thus, after a lot of research, I found out that svelte was something that I always wanted, but never really knew until I had to go through the past failure.

so believe in your Journey nothing happen just for the sake of it, everything has meaning.

its when you look backwards, you realize how everything made much more sense.

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DoomGoober@reddit

Programmers generally call this "Developer Experience": How easy or hard is it to learn and use a library or framework. Svelte definitely has a friendlier DevEx than React and that's part of its charm (at least until Svelte 5 released and the DevEx got a lot less charming.)

For example, C# and Java are very similar, but anyone who codes in both will tell you C#'s Developer Experience is much nicer, which means less frustration and faster coding (generally.)

DevEx is a huge deal and it's like any car or cell phone or other product you buy: The nicer it is to use, generally the more you want to use it.