17 engineers on Hacker News describe using Svelte first-hand: 14 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I very happily use Svelte for work, for my personal projects because of fine grained reactivity through signals”
endorse · production · h4ch1 · 2025-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using vite + svelte quite a lot and it's super nice and extremely lightweight/flexible.”
endorse · personal · speedylight · 2022-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I found Svelte made sense to me almost immediately and debugging issues has always been a breeze.”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · clairegraham · 2022-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“whenever I can I choose Svelte, it really is a joy to use.”
endorse · production · nathias · 2022-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Svelte / SvelteKit for 1.5 years now – it is without comparison the most enjoyable and productive web”
endorse · production · 1.5 yr · kenkunz · 2022-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've been using Svelte in production for years and overall are extremely happy with it.”
endorse · production · dbrueck · 2022-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our front-end team uses Svelte. We've had nothing but success. ... every front-end developer we have learned Svelte on-the-job within a few weeks.”
endorse · production · Pr0ject217 · 2022-09-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“front-end engineers found Svelte much more intuitive and faster to learn”
endorse · production · abidlabs · 2022-06-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using it in production and really really happy with it.”
endorse · production · Glench · 2021-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Svelte is a good compromise of an opinionated approach, high flexibility and ease of learning.”
endorse · production · cygned · 2021-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using this for most projects with a Django backend.”
endorse · production · raghavkukreti · 2020-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using TS + Svelte on a side project and it has been very nice.”
endorse · personal · mattgreenrocks · 2020-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been converting my massive Vue 2 application to smaller micro front-ends written in Svelte/Sapper... these are all in production.”
endorse · production · yawnxyz · 2020-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've switched to Svelte for new projects at work, from React. ... The UI component libraries for Svelte are still lacking in maturity”
mixed · production · erokar · 2020-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've switched from React to Svelte at work. Going back to React would be a step backwards for us”
endorse · production · erokar · 2020-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Through this project, I've learned Svelte, iOS development with SwiftUI, lots of things about PWAs”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · mgirkins · 2023-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Tried Svelte and it seemed really concise and fun to work on”
neutral · personal · sergiotapia · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?