tmstats VS SvelteKit

Shoutout to Sveltekit which does SSR and client-side navigation by default! https://kit.svelte.dev/

Svelte creator and Vercel employee here. Vercel does indeed invest heavily in Svelte and SvelteKit, not least by employing me and Simon Holthausen (and potentially others in future), but there's no danger of lock-in — we're just two members of a much larger core team. Governance-wise, it's an independent project, and we'd be thrilled if other companies also chose to employ core team members! You can see pull requests like https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/pull/8740 as an example of how we approach the relationship between SvelteKit and Vercel — we're adding a new feature and Vercel will be the first adapter that gets to take advantage of it, but we're careful to design the feature in a platform-agnostic way (we even @'d a Netlify engineer to make sure that they're aware of the work in case they also want to take advantage of it).

Anyway, I'm sure this will be said elsewhere in the thread but it bears repeating — the Next team similarly works hard to make sure that your Next apps can be self-hosted and run on other platforms.

While Svelte handles code that runs in the browser — like interactivity and reactivity — SvelteKit gives you infrastructure for the server hosting your app. SvelteKit will provide routing, layouts, static-site generation, API endpoints, and other app features that can only run on a server https://kit.svelte.dev/

If you're open to contributing directly to the core framework rather than building on top/around it, I've had an issue opened since back in the Sapper days that seems very popular and yet has been almost completely ignored: Treat layout pages like components when using named slots

legacy browsers support. Currently there is an almost finished pull request it’s not merged, afaik Rich Harris wants it to be a separate plugin https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/12

In SvelteKit, Treat layout pages like components when using named slots #627

SvelteKit (See examples from Vercel and Netlify)

There are nearly 1100 open issues across two main repos: 749 in sveltejs/svelte and 343 in sveltejs/kit. And it's not like they're some junk issues, quite a bit of issues thoroughly report a bug.