Ask HN: Sveltekit newbies, what’s your experience so far?

2 points by galenko 3 years ago | 1 comment

I ask because I got curious about sveltekit when the 1.0 release happened and am now trying to build a little app with it.

My experience has been extremely frustrating.

It feels like a lot of the tutorials and code examples I can find (or those provided by copilot) are outdated and not working (like try finding how to create a post route).

And then simple things (connecting to mongo for example) also become extremely convoluted or flat out stop working (I have an example where one bit of code works perfectly fine in express, but then doesn’t find anything in svelte).

The thing that sold me on svelte were all the experiences shared by many in YouTube videos and blogs about how logical and straightforward svelte is, yet I seem to find nothing but frustration.

Am I alone in this?

leerob 3 years ago |

I'm happy to share this feedback with the Svelte team.

Can you share more about which code examples you're looking for? We can then try to make some better suggestions.

For connecting to Mongo, can you share your code? Is it using a direct connection through the driver or using the Data API?