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>Having used Solidjs for some pet projects, I've come to strongly prefer Solidjs over React. It's an evolution of react, so I've found my existing skills/knowle

>Having used Solidjs for some pet projects, I've come to strongly prefer Solidjs over React. It's an evolution of react, so I've found my existing skills/knowledge transfers. This being said, Solidjs is brand new and the ecosystem is minuscule compared to React. For this reason, I plan to continue using React for the foreseeable future. One of the biggest weaknesses of Solidjs is the lack of a "nextjs" like framework. It appears work is being done in the solid-start[1] repo, but it looks like it's still years away from being fleshed out. I want Solidjs to succeed, but I'm not interested in being an early adopter. The chicken-and-egg ecosystem problem for new frameworks is tough. I've been working on Svelte stuff lately which has a similar problem but less extreme--the ecosystem is still much worse than React's, unsurprisingly, but it's also much better than Solid's right now. I think Solid's primary branding is around performance and Svelte's primary branding is around it being easy. For getting things off the ground, I think "easy" is a much more successful approach.

orenelbaum 5y ago
Solid has done some branding around performance but the promotion is shifting to be more balanced, as Solid really isn't about performance. Solid's biggest priority has been to give the best DX for building performant applications that stay maintainable at scale and after years of work on the same project. Solid might seem harder than Svelte or Vue to get started with (although this is arguable IMO) but due to it's simplicity I think that it's much easier to master and understand what actually is going on. Compare this to Svelte which has the goal of creating the perfect high level abstraction so that you never need to understand how things work and was originally created for smaller one off projects with much smaller complexity and no maintenance burden.

orenelbaum 5y ago

Solid has done some branding around performance but the promotion is shifting to be more balanced, as Solid really isn't about performance. Solid's biggest priority has been to give the best DX for building performant applications that stay maintainable at scale and after years of work on the same project. Solid might seem harder than Svelte or Vue to get started with (although this is arguable IMO) but due to it's simplicity I think that it's much easier to master and understand what actually is going on. Compare this to Svelte which has the goal of creating the perfect high level abstraction so that you never need to understand how things work and was originally created for smaller one off projects with much smaller complexity and no maintenance burden.