Very cool, I've been following React-NodeGUI for about a year now and I love Svelte.
I especially love the idea of Svelte (compiling to imperative JavaScript code), but since it's technically a "superset" of JavaScript, IDE support has been an issue for me. Also I've cut my teeth trying to find a solid UI component library. These two things have restricted my use of the framework to smaller projects.
It’s unfortunate but the component library situation is really Svelte’s weak point currently.
At Monitoro[0] we bit the bullet and implemented the vast majority of our components from scratch. Apart from the obvious time to develop and test, and the trailing bugs that are hard to solve for small closed source projects, the experience wasn’t that bad.
Ultimately what helped us the most is writing our components using a state machine-like pattern, mixed with TailwindCSS to make styling easier.
In our case, the effort was worth it as we anyway needed several super specific components, and now that we’re over the hill we have complete control on our UX.
(Also having built component libraries/design systems before in different UI frameworks, doing it in Svelte was one of the best experiences so far)
There are some efforts in the Svelte ecosystem but they’re small and do not have much firepower behind, thus limited or of relatively low quality.
Word, thanks! I think it's interesting because Svelte community support is pretty big. The repo's consistently been on Github's Trending repos for the past 2.5 years and it has an impressive number of stars
> been on Github's Trending repos for the past 2.5 years and it has an impressive number of stars
Wow, must mean the project is real important. I agree that svelte is interesting, but focusing on metrics and popularity is the wrong approach to new technology.
You can't judge a technology by its popularity. But I was judging the ecosystem by its popularity and those things are very highly correlated. More people bookmarking a project mean in theory it should have better 3rd party library support.
You're judging the ecosystem based on the stars/trendiness of Sveltes repository? That feels even more wrong and you're doing a lot of extrapolation here.
In terms of IDE support, VS Code with the Svelte extension is the best around!
A component library is a bit much to come until Svelte NodeGUI gets a bit more attention. Even Svelte web projects are underpopulated on component libraries, I believe. But it’s worth trying out the built-in primitives first!
No suggestions, unfortunately. The lack of a comprehensive UI component library a la PrimeReact/NG/Vue really is a showstopper.
Doesn't have to be free. But component providers do not seem to care about Svelte.
I especially love the idea of Svelte (compiling to imperative JavaScript code), but since it's technically a "superset" of JavaScript, IDE support has been an issue for me. Also I've cut my teeth trying to find a solid UI component library. These two things have restricted my use of the framework to smaller projects.
Anyone have any suggestions?