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Is it possible to add Svelte gradually for simple and small parts of a website without a compile step? It surely seems amazing and all the rave these days! The
by iamsanteri 4y ago
Is it possible to add Svelte gradually for simple and small parts of a website without a compile step? It surely seems amazing and all the rave these days!
Then again, the whole front-end ecosystem is moving at a pace I cannot quite follow. Instead, I've been going into the direction of traditional monoliths and working through the docs of Django and RoR.
There you have a plain "good-old" templating language with sprinkles of htmx and alpine where you need it. This along a bunch of back-end devs that seem to not want to even touch the javascript stuff with a stick. It almost feels refreshing though, particularly if you want to build rapid MVPs while retaining maximum control of your entire stack and IP. When teams grow and you need to support extensive and/or thicker clients, I believe this is where bigger front-end libraries like you mention truly shine. I'm still counting on us coming a full circle and there being a re-emergence of traditional monoliths in the future though. But then again, with supabases, pocketbases, strapis and other "simpler" backends of this world, who knows what'll be happening even in the nearest future...