My journey from Gatsby to SvelteKit

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Svelte

Svelte is not a library or a framework, it is a compiler. This means that your code is not shipped in combination with packages to a browser, but it gets compiled to something else. This something is shipped to the browser. Because all code gets compiled, the total size decreases, but the performance increases. Besides, it allows you to break away from writing everything inside a JavaScript function, and have its optimized format.

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React

React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to write UIs. As it is a library, your code plus the library is shipped to the browser and executed there. Also, you have to write your HTML (or JSX) inside the return of a function, while other lifecycle information is also encapsulated inside that function. Gatsby is a static site generation (SSG) solution build on top of React, and was used in the previous version of this website. An easy next step would be migrating to Next.js, a static-site rendering (SSR) solution build on React. But then I came across the news of the SvelteKit public beta.

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Next.js

React is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to write UIs. As it is a library, your code plus the library is shipped to the browser and executed there. Also, you have to write your HTML (or JSX) inside the return of a function, while other lifecycle information is also encapsulated inside that function. Gatsby is a static site generation (SSG) solution build on top of React, and was used in the previous version of this website. An easy next step would be migrating to Next.js, a static-site rendering (SSR) solution build on React. But then I came across the news of the SvelteKit public beta.

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