Is Svelte the Future of JavaScript Frameworks?

Is Svelte the next big thing in JavaScript frameworks?

Over the years, JavaScript development has gone through several paradigms: from raw AJAX in vanilla JS to a long reign of event-driven frameworks such as jQuery and Mootools, to the current state-driven approach of the current champions such as React, Vue, and Angular.

But in an era where everyone is looking at performance, accessibility, and developer experience, there’s a new contender that promises to deliver all of these through a radical new approach to building apps. Is Svelte the next big thing in JavaScript frameworks?

The Evolution of JavaScript Frameworks

In one way or another, we’ve been building web apps even before the word “app” was coined.

Early interactive websites gathered the power of AJAX to provide improved navigation and even what we may call the first SPAs. But the crude state of JS made for an excruciating developer experience, making apps increasingly hard to deploy and maintain as they grew.

In 2006 John Resig created jQuery, and the era of event-driven frameworks was born. After a quick challenge with MooTools, jQuery rose as the go-to framework for anything front-end, and it reigned supreme for a…