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I was dreading working on a web3 svelte app that requires ethereum and cosmos wallet connections. All the web3 libraries are react with some having vanilla option

But it turns out you don't need a svelte option. Just pull the vanilla @wevm wagmi lib and it just works. Shit just works like that

Svelte’s ecosystem is huge because it’s trivial to adapt vanilla JavaScript things. (It’s about to become even easier when Svelte 5 drops this April!)

In React, everything has to be wrapped or rewritten in terms of React providers and hooks – it’s practically a different programming language.

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Ugh, I don't wanna be the guy that is just constantly defending React (it's not that great, tbh), but _everything_? I'm using vanilla viem in a React project. Plus all the other go-to libs like lodash, zod, etc.

> it’s practically a different programming language

React has a learning curve, but it's really just JS.

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I'm using both! The viem use case is pretty specific, but it's to get data from a contract on a specific network. It was easy enough to just make a raw viem client and call readContract via TanStack Query.

We just went from implying you can't use vanilla JS libs in React and that it's so different from anything else that it's basically not JS, to: If you need to use the state hook, you have to use hooks.

React's state management and lifecycle method handling is not as good as other frameworks. You could just say that.

Fair – I should clarify I mean “everything” that gets consumed at the component level. At some point or another, any JavaScript reference used for component state has to be adapted to follow the laws of React hooks.

Everything up until that point or outside the component realm is indeed just vanilla JS 😄