Opinionated means at least you have opinions, which isn’t a bad thing imho, otherwise...

I was recently poking around with SvelteKit to build some stuff, and came across an interesting article https://www.swyx.io/svelte-sites-react-apps from @swyx.

My initial reaction, soon after reading the title (w/o checking contents), was like “Huh? Isn’t it a common sense that both Svelte and React are amazing front-end frameworks that are capable of building awesome sites AND apps??”.

However, there is a thing called jumping conclusion bias.

So i went through the article and took a step back. I read the title again, and it became as (__ are placeholders)

__ for Sites, __ for Apps

But how do we compare Sites vs Apps?

Then we need to fill in the placeholders.

Eleventy for Sites, Next.js for Apps

Is it a good title? maybe not. Let’s try again.

Svelte for Sites,  React for Apps

Much better huh?

The final question might be “do you agree with what the author said?”, the answer is simply “i don’t know”. But does it even matter 🙂

Notes

Some cool technologies mentioned above

• https://github.com/11ty/eleventy
• https://nextjs.org/
• https://svelte.dev/
• https://reactjs.org/