Svelte is that fast
If you search online, you’ll find countless benchmarks claiming to compare the performance of various JavaScript frameworks with each other. More often than not, the benchmarks are overly simplistic and fail to reflect real-world scenarios. In other cases, they compare apples and oranges, for instance by pitting a fully fledged framework against a lightweight library that cover only a small subset of the framework’s functionality. Right now, I’m at that point in my career again where I am starting development on a new web application and need to choose the “right” JavaScript framework. This time, I decided to look for academic studies on the performance of JavaScript frameworks and sadly, didn’t find as many as I had hoped. I did come across one particular study that compares…