Considering rewriting micronotal in SvelteKit... I'm not a frontend developer by any means, and React's useEffect, useCallback, etc. keeps throwing me for a loop. SvelteKit seems to me to be more straightforward, and reactive values/statements are easier to understand when you have automatic dependency detection. As I have barely any experience with any frontend frameworks, I might of course be entirely wrong, and moving to SvelteKit won't magically provide a better developer experience. Pretty sure I'm going to go through with it, though.

So, the rewrite is underway. I've implemented auth, moved some pages and routes around to make things cleaner, and got a frontpage full of threads rendering almost identically to the Next.js implementation. Still a couple of pages left to go before I'm done.

Didn’t get much further today, but I have to say: SvelteKit is so far a much more pleasant experience than Next.js. Way easier to understand what happens client side and what happens server side. Data fetching is a breeze. Automatic typing of load functions. And everything is way snappier! The list goes on.

Writing this from the preview deployment of micronotal written in SvelteKit. Have to say, I'm blown away by how easy SK is to work with compared to Next.

Looking through things, I see that I've got some broken links to profiles now, but that's an easy fix