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… and people would look into https://svelte.dev which might be everything you need.

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They don't have enough funding. Next.js and Gatsby are in an entirely different weight class compared to Sapper.

https://sapper.svelte.dev/

And... Sapper is dead btw.

Rich said it recently in a video. The Svelte team is working on the next big thing combining Svelte with Snowpack. The project is called SvelteKit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfdtmcZ4d0

I think retiring Sapper was the right decision. I have a feeling Rollup will meet a similar end too.

They both seemed like fine pieces of software. They just don't seem offer separate much their counterparts nowadays that warrants continued feature development.

Rollup isn't going anywhere! When you poke behind the scenes of newer build tools, like Snowpack and Vite and the custom compiler that powers Remix Run, you'll find Rollup doing a lot of the heavy lifting. And it's the preferred choice of most libraries. There's a reason for that :)

Thanks for the correction, Rich.

I just watched your presentation at Svelte Summit and I'm looking forward to how Svelte progresses.

Maybe this can save someone some confusion: When I searched the first result for SvelteKit seems to be another project that is dead.

Should be called SveltePack IMO :)

The project hasn't really been publicly released yet. The repository is still private. The package is up on npm, but isn't ready for widespread adoption yet. I'd recommend sticking with Sapper for now.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@sveltejs/kit

"Sapper is dead" is not really accurate. SvelteKit is Sapper + Snowpack and there will be a migration path.

SvelteKit will replace Sapper which will never reach 1.0. Development on Sapper will stop (or probably has already stopped).

Or even better, Vue.js

I am not sure I buy into all the svelte hype, and even if claims about it's speed/build size are true - the difference isn't enough to outweigh the enormous advantage vue has in terms of a more mature ecosystem/tooling.

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