svelte-material-ui VS polka

Sveltematerialui (SMUI): GitHub: https://github.com/hperrin/svelte-material-ui SMUI is a Svelte wrapper for Material-UI, which is one of the most popular Material Design libraries. It provides a collection of components that follow the Material Design guidelines and can be easily integrated into Svelte projects.

For material UI you can use: https://sveltematerialui.com. It works fine although my experience with it is minimal. For tailwind you can run npx svelte-add tailwindcss.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, we’re using Svelte Material UI. To install it in our project, we have to first add it to our dependencies:

I know everyone loves Tailwind; I do too. However, there are too many things we take for granted with Material Design. Try and add a simple Date Picker to a Svelte Project. The Materialify project was abandoned (as well as the potential re-write SvelterialJS). The Svelte Material UI hasn't been updated in months, has poor documentation, and may well be on its way to be abandoned as well. Angular Material is well supported by Goodle, React MUI is in the process of getting updated, and so is Vuetify. SolidJS just built a translator for React MUI, and I think it is buggy and doesn't support Solid Start yet. Vercel should donate $$ monthly to support Svelte Material UI. It also needs to add components outside of Material Web (like Datepicker) that the Vue, Angular, and React alternatives support. Material UI is the standard for a reason. Another option would be to find a good translator like Mitosis, but I don't see that happening in this case. That being said, there are some alpha and beta UI Frameworks worth looking at like Skelton and SvelteUI (based on Tailwind). https://sveltematerialui.com/ https://www.skeleton.dev/ https://www.svelteui.org/

The issues I've seen with SMUI have to do with TypeScript support (example), but these should be solved in the upcoming release 7.0.

HI all! I am looking for a good Material UI framework to use with Sveltekit! I have been trying to use SMUI from sveltematerialui.com, however it seems to cause tons of issues and the github issues don't seem to want to fix many of them, it seems like it isn't fully prod ready. I have looked at materialify, it seems good, however it hasn't been updated in the past 12 months, so I am not sure about the status of that. Option 3 would be me making all styles myself.... but that is quite a bit of work and I would like to have something working before the end of the month. Does anyone have any good alternatives to these? I have looked into Google's material libs, but they seem geared towards react and I am not sure if I want to mix things up that much. There must be matieral only CSS libs around that will play well with Tailwind, but I haven't had much luck finding anything (open source) that works well.

I'm using SMUI- the Svelte Material UI inspired by the design on Google sites and Android.

Although this could also be done with some other framework like React, Vue, Svelte, etc.I think using a variant of the MaterialUI with its various widgets (user interface elements that can be used to build your app) will give you the look and feel you are looking for, see https://mui.com/ for React or https://sveltematerialui.com/ for Svelte

Express.js, with its long-lived version 4 is famous for its somewhat low performance. Other projects like fastify or polka have benchmarks outperforming Express.js. I don’t know why Express is slower, maybe because of regex processing of routes? If you’re using parametric routes like /users/:userid/entity and have no regexp routes, then replacing Express.js with fastify or polka will add a performance boost to your app. They are not direct replacements, but you can convert code if you really need that boost. In the article below benchmarks shows huge improvement, but in reality, your code will be a limiting factor to your app performance, and you are unlikely notice any improvement.

- once released and popular, they cease getting frequent updates

Now, yes this is a generalization. It doesn't apply to all of their packages, and not at the same point in time. But there is a pattern there. Some quick diving into the author's Github account, and their more popular repos shows the pattern. It's also clear that this was a choice made by a Svelte contributor to use their own package for "official" support in Svelte Kit.

When it comes to polka itself, I just don't get why a maturing framework like Svelte would choose something whose only real advantage lies in micro-benchmarking porn [1]. Speculation aside, I'm surprised the Svelte team didn't look at that choice through a lens of higher scrutiny. Koa would have been an infinitely better choice in my personal opinion, and there are several community-driven setups [2][3] for it.

[1] https://github.com/lukeed/polka#benchmarks

[2] https://github.com/kaladivo/svelte-kit-koa-boilerplate

[3] https://blog.logrocket.com/sapper-svelte-tutorial-2021/

Check out polka if you haven’t. It’s far leaner, and faster.

polka link

Sapper, by default, uses polka as the server. I decided to use express instead.

Learn something new every day. This is awesome I could probably use polka instead of express.