Reflections on Migrating my SaaS to SvelteKit
In short, I really love it. Less code, great dev experience. Will take a while for more community resources to become available.
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In short, I really love it. Less code, great dev experience. Will take a while for more community resources to become available.
Thanks for sharing! Curious about how everything is going. Still, seeing growth?
The challenge for me around spending time migrating frameworks means less time growing the product. I understand it has to be done at some point. What went into calculating the return of value for spending the time on the framework vs. marketing?
Hey Tim, always good to see your name pop up.
And yep, still seeing growth! That's part of why I actually made the decision to switch frameworks. It wasn't particularly rational in the sense of calculating the return value but it came out of the recognition that ExtensionPay is growing and that if I invest more in it it can grow more and offer even more value to myself and others.
With that recognition, I was like yeah, I want to commit long-term to this project, and one thing that will help me commit is putting it on a more solid technical foundation.
So the decision was a little bit more symbolic or romantic than rational, I suppose, but sometimes as humans the romantic decisions are more important, don't you think?
That's awesome glad you are seeing growth! Feel free to reach out if you ever want to chat.
Thanks for the write-up, I share the love for Svelte(Kit). In a nutshell, when something doesn't work in SvelteKit, I always feel like it's my own incompetence, and not the framework's fault 😄
Oh really? That’s interesting! Since SvelteKit is so new I assume it’s something wrong with it :P but it IS pretty straightforward, isn’t it?
Yeah :) I think this is because Svelte is a superset of HTML (similarly to Typescript being a superset of JavaScript).
I don't realize this until recently, when Rich Harris (Svelte's initial creator) mentioned this.