What follows is part one in a series of articles in which I build a blog using both VueJS and Svelte. To be clear, I’m actually going to be building two blogs simultaneously — one for each framework. In the first part of this article, I’ll discuss the tools…
Svelte
If you like fast JavaScript apps, you’ll love Svelte. It works a bit differently than some of the other frameworks that you may be familiar with. Instead of shipping a large runtime, Svelte is compiled. This means the code you end up with is optimized and dramatically reduced in…
One of the reasons I love writing about JavaScript frameworks is that they are incredibly impressive pieces of engineering. That, and the fact that they have made my life as a frontend developer much, much better. That said, there is always room for improvement…
When I first saw Svelte, the first thing that struck me was that it reminded me a lot of Vue. As I dug into a bit more, I realized that despite many similarities, there were also some big differences.…
In my writing here on JavaScript Report, I try not to be a cheerleader. But every once in a while something comes along that gets me excited. Sapper is one of those things. It’s a new JavaScript framework built on top of the Svelte library. If you like fast…