[JoshuaRowe]

I think it keeps what is good about React and ditches what is bad. It is familiar enough to pick up if you’ve done any component and hook based React. I think it probably serves as a framework that people who know what they are doing to get more performance and predictability out of their front end code and maybe a better mental model than wondering why React has an infinite rerender issue or other weird quirks we’ve grown to not notice / appreciate in React. I think there is probably more out of the box functionality that probably allows you to not then have to bundle React with some other meta framework, such as NextJS or similar.

While SolidJS is good, I really don’t think SolidStart is close to being useful or good. Not sure I really understand the value add on top of SolidJS quite like I understand NextJS on top of React. When I had to use SolidStart, there was a few times, I really just used SolidJS in place of some SolidStart built-ins because I couldn’t get it to do what I wanted and the docs were nearly non-existent. I even think I had to look at its src code to paint a complete picture from where the docs were at the time. In additional, I have no idea why people decide to use things that are so new for apps that are production used as much as they do. SolidStart really just made things more complicated for as simple of an app as I used it on. I couldn’t imagine using it for something that is non trivial at all.