SolidStart
Shares rank 58 of 63 web frameworks by recommenders
People recommend it as a modern framework that is easy to host anywhere, with an elegant approach to async and error handling. One critic says it was placed into maintenance mode.
People recommend it as a modern framework that is easy to host anywhere, with an elegant approach to async and error handling. One critic says it was placed into maintenance mode.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Modern framework for moving projects forward
“SolidStart 2.0 has a very important role of moving current projects into the future.”
Comment from 13 Aug 2026 in “Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>” “modern alternatives that are actually good like SvelteKit or SolidStart”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week” Recommended alongside SvelteKit
“SvelteKit and SolidStart are the two I recommend, it's easy to host anywhere”
Comment from 24 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week” “modern alternatives that are actually good like SvelteKit or SolidStart”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| SolidStartThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“extremely elegant solution to async, error handling and heavily concurrent behaviors”
“SolidStart 2.0 has a very important role of moving current projects into the future.”
“immediately placed into maintenance mode”
“modern alternatives that are actually good like SvelteKit or SolidStart”
“SvelteKit and SolidStart are the two I recommend, it's easy to host anywhere”
“can do similar things but without the whole”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.