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Svelte does three things that I disagree with: uses unconventional JS-ish syntax (like '$:' labels and how it does import/export), requires a very framework-specific templating language and requires a large build step.

Since those are pretty central to how svelte is used and it's philosophy I don't think svelte is a good fit for me, personally.

We all value different things in different frameworks, and that's great!

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I agree. I've learnt my lesson and I will _NOT_ be running "npm install" on any greenfield projects anymore. I like the idea of Svelte but I do not like its dependency on npm/node.

At least with Vue I can just include the library into the page, with no mandatory build step.

Have y'all looked at RiotJS? My current favourite, not in my way, easy to reason about JS toolkit for building (all or part) of web-interface

The trade-off is performance. If you don't build your application, you're offloading work to the client.

In the case of Svelte, you're also likely increasing the size of your site, since it transpiles down to simple JS instructions rather than abstracted framework calls.

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