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Sapper vs Svelte

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Overview

Sapper
Sapper
Stacks41
Followers56
Votes0
Svelte
Svelte
Stacks1.7K
Followers1.6K
Votes502
GitHub Stars84.6K
Forks4.7K

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Advice on Sapper, Svelte

Máté
Máté

Senior developer at Self-employed

May 28, 2020

Decided

Svelte is everything a developer could ever want for flexible, scalable frontend development. I feel like React has reached a maturity level where there needs to be new syntactic sugar added (I'm looking at you, hooks!). I love how Svelte sets out to rebuild a new language to write interfaces in from the ground up.

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Alex
Alex

Full-stack software engineer

Apr 25, 2020

Decided

Svelte 3 is exacly what I'm looking for that Vue is not made for.

It has a iterable dom just like angular but very low overhead.

This is going to be used with the application.

for old/ lite devices . ie.

  • android tv,
  • micro linux,
  • possibly text based web browser for ascci and/or linux framebuffer
  • android go devices
  • android One devices
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Detailed Comparison

Sapper
Sapper
Svelte
Svelte

Sapper focuses on easy of use. It is alpha now and only compiled with rust nightly.

If you've ever built a JavaScript application, the chances are you've encountered – or at least heard of – frameworks like React, Angular, Vue and Ractive. Like Svelte, these tools all share a goal of making it easy to build slick interactive user interfaces. Rather than interpreting your application code at run time, your app is converted into ideal JavaScript at build time. That means you don't pay the performance cost of the framework's abstractions, or incur a penalty when your app first loads.

Async, based on hyper mio branch; Sapper supplies only basic framework; Sapper only processes small request and response (with small request body, returning small response body) now; Three level granularity (global, module, function handler) middleware controller and unified middleware presentation; Typesafe abstraction, keep the same spirit with hyper; For easy using, will supply some convenient macros to help write business logic; Global object cross requests;
Write less code; No virtual DOM; Truly reactive
Statistics
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Stars
84.6K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
4.7K
Stacks
41
Stacks
1.7K
Followers
56
Followers
1.6K
Votes
0
Votes
502
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 0
    Less bundle Size
Pros
  • 59
    Performance
  • 41
    Reactivity
  • 36
    Components
  • 35
    Simplicity
  • 34
    Javascript compiler (do that browsers don't have to)
Cons
  • 3
    Event Listener Overload
  • 2
    Little to no libraries
  • 2
    Hard to learn
  • 2
    Learning Curve
  • 2
    Complex
Integrations
Rust
Rust
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What are some alternatives to Sapper, Svelte?

jQuery

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

AngularJS

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

React

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

ExpressJS

ExpressJS

Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.

Vue.js

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

Django REST framework

Django REST framework

It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.

Sails.js

Sails.js

Sails is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture.

Sinatra

Sinatra

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

Lumen

Lumen

Laravel Lumen is a stunningly fast PHP micro-framework for building web applications with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development must be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Lumen attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as routing, database abstraction, queueing, and caching.

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