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As a seasoned engineer (compiler background), but beginner in frontend, I'm curious aboutthe lack of expressive power that Svelte incurs. Could you (or someone

• SebastianKra 4y ago
  Once a data is transformed into a view in Svelte, you can't do anything with it in JS. For example, a component can't iterate over the children in a slot [1]. This is limiting when designing generic Component-APIs. As an extreme example: In React, I could trivially define a tabbed interface by mixing strings, JSX, and components, without imposing any DOM-structure. The component that reads this definition could use it to build a tabbed-view on mobile, and a master-detail-view on desktop. ...or it could build a table of contents. When defining the tab names, I can mostly use strings, but fall back to JSX if necessary. Importantly, the API is completely independent from the implementation. const tabs = [ { name: "Tab 1", icon: <img ... />, content: MainTab }, { name: <>Tab with <b>bold<b/> text</>, icon: <MyIcon ... />, content: SecondTab }, ] return <MyLayout tabs={tabs} /> [1]: https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/5381 https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/5381