Hi, as title says, what framework do you use and why?

I have time to learn something new, but I can’t decide whether to use Svelte or React or any other thing there is.. My current job required PHP, Laravel and Codeigniter, which I kinda mastered but I feel that I need to move on.

So from your perspective and experience, which framework do you prefer? Can you maybe send me your favourite tutorial guy that does not have long boring videos just to have watch time ? (I don’t want to sit around and watch someone do it, I want to do it, videos are just for entertainment)

I want to learn something, but not decided yet what to use. Thanks for any advice.

  • silas@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    I went from React → Vue → Svelte

    Svelte/SvelteKit is just so simple to use and feels closer to vanilla JS/HTML/CSS that I find myself missing it when I use the others. SvelteKit supports SSR, so if you’d like you can build out your whole backend API as well.

    Svelte has an awesome interactive tutorial you can jump into right away

    Come hang out at !sveltejs@programming.dev if you have any questions!

  • starman@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    You can try a JS frontend framework, Vue for example. You may not like it, but it is worth to try at least

  • shasta@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Angular is what I use almost exclusively. It feels to me to be the most framework-like framework. React and Vue just feel like hacky JS shortcuts in comparison.

  • echindod@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    I am interested in Hyperfiddle/Electric, I haven't used it, buts a closure framework where you can call front end and backend functions from the same function, it passes data with streams. Really interesting, someday when I have tons of time I'll look into it

  • riklaunim@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    PHP seems to be getting a lot of positives lately, especially Laravel. Many years ago I moved from PHP to Python and Django to now also use a few other Python frameworks like Flask as well. On the frontend, I've used Ember.js for two big SPA dashboards and also Vue 3 for WebSockets and API-based dashboard. With the dashboards bias, I would not pick anything that doesn't have a good data layer :)

    Recently I'm also into static site generators like Astro and 11ty which are kinds of frameworks that generate a static site but the effect can be quite lively edited website through various git based headless CMS systems.

  • yogsototh@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    I would use reagent and reitit if I had to start a new project. But the best tools are generally not the most popular (unintuitively).