routify VS ractive

Been using Routify in all my projects since I started with Svelte like 3-4 years ago.

Anyway, it seems you have a problem with Sveltekit routing. You can still use Svelte with other SSR frameworks, such as Astro, a router like https://routify.dev, or switch to another framework altogether.

Routify is still active and new version in the works. Version 3 can be used https://github.com/roxiness/routify/tree/next

I would have to say Svelte with a router like https://routify.dev . My recent blog post originally used sveltekit but I swapped it out last minute

Consider https://github.com/roxiness/routify

Regarding some suggestions on here recommending SvelteKit: Learning SvelteKit might be a big ask depending on what you're trying to do. If you just want to stick with svelte only for now, and you want to add SPA routing capabilities, consider checking out https://routify.dev there's a ton of documentation for it and it's fairly simple to pick up. ✌🏼

Routing: We have a few third party ones such as routify, svelte-spa-router and svelte-routing as well as the clientside routers included in SvelteKit and Sapper.

if Next.js/Nuxt like needs are not something you're looking for yet, you can definitely go ahead with Svelte's default client-side app approach, with svelte-spa-router or routify for SPAs.

We chose Routify for client-side routing because this was around the time that Sapper seemed like it was being sunset in favor of Sveltekit which doesn't seem production-ready quite yet. We also have plans to statically pre-render the app so it can more-or-less work entirely offline and Routify makes that relatively straightforward (but see below).

Since svelte does a lot of compile time stuff, I would like to mention Routify, which is compile time SPA routing. For me it worked awesome to accomplish projects with many routes and the need for hash based routing.

See https://routify.dev/ and https://routify.dev/guide/installation/install-to-existing-p...

Ractive.js : a template-driven UI library that transforms your templates, styles and logic into blueprints for highly interactive apps.

Uni-directional data flow was not exactly a new idea when React/Flow came out, they just made it more popular. There were quite a few other libraries/frameworks implementing similar ideas.

I heard that 'objectively better' line for years from 2015 onwards, mostly from less experienced devs. Facebook's backing and the personality cult that developed in the JS community around the time certainly had a part in it.

A framework called Ractive [1] was published by the author of Svelte in early 2013, which foreshadows some of the syntax seen in the latter.

[1] https://ractive.js.org/