It’s been epic working on Svelte 5 for the last 9 months. It’s not far from a RC release too!
So many ideas, sparks of excitement, eureka moments and complicated and frustrating sessions battling edge cases.
It’s funny because after working on the React core team I told myself that I wouldn’t work on a JavaScript UI framework related project again. I kept getting that itch though. Thankfully I did!
In my opinion, Svelte 5 is an important improvement to the framework ecosystem. Svelte 5 moves into a performance and code size class that was previously held by Solid.
The DX improvements are huge, and although the syntax changes might not be to everyone’s tastes, the productivity gains and UX gains from being a better thought out framework will be more than worth it.
If 2023 was the year of htmx, 2024 is the year of Svelte.