Hello World (again)

From Golang and HTMX to Sveltekit and the world of Typescript. I think it’s a good change. One thing that made the jump was Tailwind, it’s pretty great actually! The reason why I did this, was I was looking into what Typescript frameworks could offer, and it’s actually pretty amazing.

Side note:

The sheer amount of effort put into the language, just in terms of libraies is astounding, and finding them is also incredibly easy.

Specifically the site is simply a personal website, and wasn’t doing anything crazy on the backend, so I opted to switch to an frontend focused solution.

So how did you get here?

the long way round

Back when you were still in primary school, I wasn’t born yet… Let’s start that again

Earlier this year, I had wanted to move vdeck.uk off of the aforementioned golang and htmx hybrid since I wanted to to a redesign and the styling was already messy, so why not test out another solution, since very little code lived on the backend?

I got a working prototype in 6 hours having never used Svelte or Sveltekit.

The only thing I needed to work on was mobile styling, the new design and connecting to a database. I mean 6 hours isn’t blazingly fast, but I didn’t rush through it, and didn’t shit out code I’d have to rewrite. Anyway, it felt fast, iterated fast and was easy - more than expected.

And was it useful?

useful's a pretty strong word, but yeah

Yes. Development speed is definitely quicker, and on the group project (20 people) at university I’m working on, I seem to be the person who knows the most about frontend development, suprisingly. Although that’s partly a function of qtching so much content from people like Theo. That isn’t directly tangible, but I’ve always found the knowledge gap is the greatest hurdle in programming.