Refreshing that it's built using the vue framework vs the typical react.
(someone continue this with framework x)
but seriously, I'm very interested to hear your gripes with Vue that were solved by react, since the latter feels much worse DX-wise than both Vue or Svelte, notwithstanding worse performance as well.
(You didn't say framework x had to be a different framework than Svelte! x)
But the main issue is the automatic reactivity. It's difficult to reason about and leads to spaghetti code. We also had occasional issues where people would put objects in properties that had some tenuous link to a database object or something, and Vue recursively infects the entire object with getters and setters to make the reactivity work. Sometimes we didn't even notice but it makes everything way slower.
I haven't tried Svelte so I'll take your word for it!
Also this was 3 years ago so I may have misremembered some details. No nitpicking!
I like the idea of svelte but for apps that are small enough that svelte has a bundle size advantage the bundle size difference isn’t decisive (users won’t usually notice or care) and if your app is huge enough that the bundle size is a problem you have problems bigger than your choice of framework.
While I will continue to probably promote Vue where it makes sense, I’m honestly more inclined towards learning Svelte, HTMX, and other less arduous frameworks.