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At over 6K GitHub stars, 69K monthly NPM downloads, and over 700 Discord members, Solid has a decently-sized community. Recently reaching v1, Solid has been over 3 years in open-source development, with over 40 contributors. But, sadly, this doesn’t translate 1-to-1 for the ecosystem.
Solid has an impressive collection of first-party tools developed by its creator - Ryan Carniato - and other contributors. There you’ll find Solid equivalents of some popular libraries from other ecosystems, like Solid Transition Group, Solid Refresh (for Hot Module Reloading - HMR), Solid App Router, and more!
Solid has an impressive collection of first-party tools developed by its creator - Ryan Carniato - and other contributors. There you’ll find Solid equivalents of some popular libraries from other ecosystems, like Solid Transition Group, Solid Refresh (for Hot Module Reloading - HMR), Solid App Router, and more!
Solid has an impressive collection of first-party tools developed by its creator - Ryan Carniato - and other contributors. There you’ll find Solid equivalents of some popular libraries from other ecosystems, like Solid Transition Group, Solid Refresh (for Hot Module Reloading - HMR), Solid App Router, and more!
With that said, the situation looks different when looking at third-party tools. There are still some interesting libraries like Solid wrapper around Heroicons or Lume - a toolkit for interactive 2D and 3D experiences, but that’s about it. Still, with an already good first-party collection and numerous framework-independent tools, developing production-ready apps with Solid shouldn’t be a problem.
With that said, the situation looks different when looking at third-party tools. There are still some interesting libraries like Solid wrapper around Heroicons or Lume - a toolkit for interactive 2D and 3D experiences, but that’s about it. Still, with an already good first-party collection and numerous framework-independent tools, developing production-ready apps with Solid shouldn’t be a problem.
As with all frameworks, synthetic benchmarks don’t tell the whole story but serve as a good point of comparison. From all available, I find the JS Framework Benchmark the best. It combines results of a standardized test from tens of UI frameworks, is open-source, and has a great, up-to-date comparison table available.
Now, it’s worth noting that aside from Solid, there are 2 faster “UI frameworks” included in the benchmark but not on the table above. These are Mikado (actually a template engine) and doohtml (marked with a note about using manual DOM manipulation), so the point still stands - Solid is the fastest JS UI library!
On the other hand, Compiling and reactivity is something you most likely heard in Svelte - the “magically-disappearing framework”. While the compiler does increase the optimization level and thus performance, it doesn’t magically disappear the overhead of components, becoming increasingly slower as the application grows.
With that said, the situation looks different when looking at third-party tools. There are still some interesting libraries like Solid wrapper around Heroicons or Lume - a toolkit for interactive 2D and 3D experiences, but that’s about it. Still, with an already good first-party collection and numerous framework-independent tools, developing production-ready apps with Solid shouldn’t be a problem.
Some might argue that React’s relatively poor performance (it’s still plenty-fast for many apps) is due to Virtual DOM and prioritization of development experience, i.e., clarity over complexity. To counter the first argument - there’s React-like Inferno. For the second one - there’s Solid.