SvelteKit 3

sampsn 197 points 64 comments October 01, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (13 comments)

sharktheone

Still waiting for remote functions to become ready :/

blakeashleyjr

Sveltekit has been a breath of fresh air for me over the last few years. I've had to work on a Next.js for work and much prefer Sveltekit. Excited to try this release!

jamies

Such a great project. I converted my React-enjoying cofounders to Svelte/SvelteKit worried they wouldn't like it, but they absolutely love it! We use Svelte extensively at Orb.net for our website (duh), but also as a framework for our desktop and mobile apps. Wails serves our golang and SvelteKit/Svelte provide the UX. It's been tremendous for multiplatform productivity, and binaries are less than 20mb! Nothing like Electron!

killingtime74

The thing I like about Svelte the most is that it's closer to raw HTML. Rather than having to keep up with all the React developments if you're not using it all the time.

chrysoprace

Been using SvelteKit 3 on a couple of personal projects since the beta and haven't had any issues. The best part is that it barely introduces new features and instead improves on existing features.

argentinian

Can somebody with experience using both compare Svelte/Sveltekit with Vue/Nuxt?

tamimio

A couple years ago I wanted to make a ui for an embedded software I made, after few research I got bamboozled with webdev eco system, it was the most frustrating thing to read, then found svelte in its first version and never looked anywhere else, the closest to vanilla, simple, and fast.

ramijames

I migrated from Nuxt to SvelteKit last year and never went back. It's great.

slopinthebag

i don't use svelte/kit for technical reasons, but there is no doubt they have the best developer experience of all the js frameworks, it's well-considered and coherent. they have the most aura for sure.

jesse_dot_id

SvelteKit has incredible DX. I use it for everything these days.

stillatit

I love the hands-on developer experience of programming in Svelte. But since we're in October of 2026 I have to ask, is the vibe-coding experience in Svelte any different than in React? Can anyone with experience in both comment?

sghiassy

Does anyone care anymore? Honest question? Whatever the agent is best at programming out to achieve a high quality outcome works for me. Just write the acceptance tests and be done with it

poetril

After far too many hours using react, Svelte has become my favorite frontend framework. I’m seeing a lot of comments about how it stacks up in the LLM age. Prior to Opus 4.6-8 (and that era of model releases) they often struggled to get Svelte 4/5 code straight and mixed it up quite a bit. But having used it A LOT this year for personal projects, large work initiatives, and one-off web tools. I’m happy to say all the modern llms seem to do just fine with it. They even handle the experimental features, like remote functions, very well. It’s mostly preference but I find reading Svelte code much more pleasant than React/Vue.

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