Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Dependency minimalism (writing software that deliberately tries to have as few dependencies as practical) is a really underrated virtue imo. Every single dependency is a risk that "something will go wrong" during someone's installation process. Installing projects with hundreds of dependencies and walking through errors can be incredibly frustrating.
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âłïž dcposch on daimo
@dcposch.eth
Strongly agree. The best software are things like SQLlite and noble/curves that are "as little code as possible but no less", tight dependency hygiene, thorough tests and do one thing well
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Samuel ă
@samuellhuber.eth
any tips / pointers on getting there for frontend projects? been thinking alot about this in the context of all the DEFI Frames we're building at dTech Typescript as ecosystem is filled with dependency hell
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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
@darrylyeo
My personal suggestions: âą React â Svelte âą CSS-in-JS â vanilla CSS âą wagmi â viem
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Samuel ă
@samuellhuber.eth
Is svelte as reactive? I like the mental model of JSX, bind to object and it auto updates Havenât used svelte before. Same thing? So easy switch?
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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
@darrylyeo
React is inherently not reactive; it ships an entire virtual DOM object diffing engine to your client and to optimize it you have to manually tell it how to track dependencies. Svelte just compiles all the bindings and auto-update logic (âfine-grained reactivityâ) for you and spits out a super tiny bundle. Best parts for me are automatic vanilla CSS scoping and full access to the greater vanilla JavaScript ecosystem. No lock-in to the React Hooks DSL. Maybe not the easiest switch if youâre already super deep into the React ecosystem and not starting a project from scratch, but also maybe nothing an LLM couldnât solve :)
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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
@darrylyeo
Very easy learning curve IMO, can learn it in an hour or so assuming HTML/CSS/JavaScript familiarity https://svelte.dev/tutorial/svelte/welcome-to-svelte
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