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No, you make a small web app. It doesn't have to be a big project, but it should be something that benefits from what the framework can deliver. This doesn't.

If you're "exploring game engines" making a resume with one is probably not what you should reach for and if you're "exploring DAWs" your testbed shouldn't be generating a pure sine wave.

This sort of site is the opposite of a perfect testbed for a framework. This sort of site doesn't need JS, it doesn't need a framework, it barely needs CSS.

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Please stop, people can build whatever they want how ever they wish, especially when it’s not planned to be super public. They wish to build it in svelte, that’s all the reasoning you need.

I’ve also literally seen someone use a game engine to build a resume on here, it was super cool and attracted a lot of interest

No one said people weren't allowed to build something with Svelte or whatever, just that they didn't think it was a good way to explore it, and backed that up with reasoning. Additionally, if there were other reasons for doing it, those would be interesting to hear.

I wouldn't get too worked up about this: discussions about which jobs a tool lends itself well to can be very insightful.

It's more that this exact conversation happens on just about every post someone makes using some tech. Someone comes in and claims it's wrong and they should have done x. Was this the best use case for Svelte/any javascript framework? Probably not, but who knows what the OP has planned for the site further, maybe it will be beneficial to have a javascript framework in place.

I guess, and I recognise the frustration, but if they argue why someone has done x, or OP comes in and describes what else they have planned and why Svelte or whatever was a good fit, then that would still be interesting to me.

What is a personal website if not something that you make super public?

Scale. Just because it was posted on their website doesn't mean they intended to draw a large, extremely critical crowd to it.

It was also the tone the commenter posted in here and across this post that came across very condescending with a holier than thou feel. They also created this account today and have been flagged and had a mod post about their postings. So if they offered some helpful advice in a more constructive way their wouldn't be a need to tell them to stop.

I made a small front-end for a web app before: http://johanronsse.be/skilliverse-10/ -

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qicEFB_XrQQ

This is much more about what the framework solves: UI as a function of the data, no spaghetti code full of DOM handlers and cross-references that are hard to follow.

Now I just used Svelte for this project, which is indeed a simple website which might not need this at all.

Still, I invite you to do similar transitions as I have between every page and on the homepage without a framework.

I didn't see any real transitions. I think I might have seen a bit of fade-in after page load, but that might just be a browser quirk. If the fade is why you're talking about, that can be easily accomplished with just a few lines of CSS; no framework needed.

If there's some transition I didn't see because of the browsers I used (I tried two different browsers on two different devices), then it might be worth using the framework, but I maintain that I haven't seen the demo site show anything that couldn't be done with vanilla HTML and CSS.

> This sort of site is the opposite of a perfect testbed for a framework.

It sounds like you're saying one should use a tool only for what it is meant for.

Many disagree.

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