SID AGBoth Robolyst and SingulTech run on Svelte. Neither of them needed a big framework — they’re mostly forms, tables, and a handful of interactive pages — so a lot of what React or Vue bring to the table would’ve been overhead.
A few reasons it’s held up well for these:
- Less boilerplate for the CRUD-heavy screens both sites lean on (rosters, scouting entries, sponsor lists).
- Small bundle size, which matters more than it sounds like when teams are checking scouting data on a phone at a competition venue with bad wifi.
- Compiles away, so there’s less runtime overhead to reason about when something’s slow.
Neither choice was dogmatic — if a project needs something heavier later, it’ll get it. For now, Svelte’s been the right amount of tool for the job.