Svelte is the fastest growing front-end framework

This sounds good but big gains are easy when your numbers are so small to begin with. React's massive audience and 35% growth are not to be underestimated. But in general this is not a useful metric.

jQuery, while a horrendous thing to pick up now that we have es6 js, appears to still going strong. But jQuery was traditionally included via CDNs, or saved locally and sent down by the site. This instead signals to me that companies are transitioning away from that and toward NPM-based builds and deployments.

In other words, I don't think technical product teams already familiar with NPM are thinking, "we should start include jQuery in our new project."

As for Svelte vs. React Vs. jQuery: People trying to show growth of product don't need to pick the hottest tools. jQuery makes me gag, but in some cases it may be more sensible and trivial to deploy "framework" for a new developer to build out a SaaS today. I think they'll have to go back and learn JS anyway, but whatever gets to launch fastest.

The goal is customers. Only pick up hot new stuff if you can't possibly get yourself interested in the development work. And if that's the case, maybe take another look at the problem you're solving.

Been using it in production for more than a year and loving it.

I’ve used it to build Pintura. The SDK not the product site. The fact that animation is so core to the Svelte and DOM updates can be finely controlled is super powerful and results in a very fast experience.

I think it’s a great example to show what the framework is capable of.

I've been dabbling with Svelte, and think it is great for smaller projects as the speed and flexibility is superb, but I do worry about maintainability in larger projects. So many 'modules' which are "compiled/transpiled" - I can see big projects getting to a stage where either people lose track of what modules do what, or re-write new modules to do same things that old ones do causing massive code bloat.

Used svelte a year + ago, and I loved it

Svelte is a brand new framework. It is going to grow fast in the beginning. Let's see if it can reach other targets beyond the beta testers.