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SolidJS

SolidJS

Simple and performant reactivity for building UIs

SolidJS provides React-like JSX with fine-grained reactivity and no Virtual DOM. Incredibly fast with a small bundle. SolidStart for full-stack development.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

React-like syntax with true reactivity and no Virtual DOM overhead. The performance benchmarks speak for themselves.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Skip

Impressive technology but tiny ecosystem. For production apps, React or Svelte have better library support.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

SolidJS's reactivity model is influencing the entire framework ecosystem. The ideas matter even if adoption is niche.

Community Sentiment

Overall2,105 mentions
75% positive17% neutral8% negative
Hacker News460 mentions
77%16%7%

The mental model of signals is cleaner than React hooks — no stale closures, no missing deps array, just reactive primitives

Reddit580 mentions
72%19%9%

Benchmarks are real — my dashboard app is measurably faster than the React version with identical features

Twitter/X870 mentions
74%17%9%

React devs who try Solid rarely go back — JSX familiarity with none of the Virtual DOM overhead

Product Hunt195 mentions
79%14%7%

SolidStart + Solid Query is a legitimately great full-stack story, just needs a bigger ecosystem