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Enhancing Svelte for success (widespread adoption) #13147
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However, I have frustration with Svelte. **THE DISADVANTAGES WITH USING SVELTE** 1.) **SMALL UNHELPFUL COMMUNITY** When I wanted to learn Svelte, what I was presented with, is that the Svelte Community is small. In the long run, what I found out, is that the issue with the Svelte Community isn't about being small. It is about the truth that the Svelte Community isn't very helpful and supportive to newbies and beginners: -- they don't share code snippets. -- they don't take out time to help you look at your problem to support you in fixing it. -- they are not willing to properly guide you. -- and they many times behave very hostile. … 2.) **EASY BEGINNER FRIENDLY DOCUMENTATION** New adopters and beginners are the people that will use Svelte and SvelteKit. Senior developers are already hooked to React, Angular and Vue. So it is an error of judgement for Svelte to say that its documentation is not for beginners. Svelte should re-align its philosophy, and make itself "*the JavaScript User Interface and State Management framework for beginners and dummies*".
Related Pain Points
Small and unhelpful Svelte community for beginners and newbies
5The Svelte community is small and often unhelpful to beginners. Community members don't share code snippets, take time to help debug problems, provide proper guidance, and sometimes behave hostilely toward newcomers.
Documentation not beginner-friendly despite Svelte's target audience
4Official Svelte documentation is not tailored for beginners despite beginners being the primary target audience (senior developers already use React, Vue, Angular). Documentation should be reframed as 'JavaScript for beginners and dummies'.