--- title: 3 Lessons from React that can make you a better Svelte... description: Developers moving from React to Svelte should carry over three key best practices. First, always use keys on list iterations to avoid DOM state corruption,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/3-lessons-from-react-that-can-make-you-a-better-svelte-developer-ouf2smgoe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 3 Lessons from React that can make you a better Svelte Developer | daily.dev og:description: Developers moving from React to Svelte should carry over three key best practices. First, always use keys on list iterations to avoid DOM state corruption,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/3-lessons-from-react-that-can-make-you-a-better-svelte-developer-ouf2smgoe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ouf2SmGOe.png og:image:alt: 3 Lessons from React that can make you a better Svelte Developer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 3 Lessons from React that can make you a better Svelte Developer **[Playful Programming](https://daily.dev/sources/playfulprogramming)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Developers moving from React to Svelte should carry over three key best practices. First, always use keys on list iterations to avoid DOM state corruption, even though Svelte doesn't warn you. Second, be aware that single-value stores don't scale for complex apps — the same synchronization and normalization challenges that drove Redux patterns in React apply to Svelte too. Third, design stores with immutable interfaces and explicit setters to prevent unpredictable mutations as data flows through the app. Svelte makes things easier, but the underlying architectural laws remain the same. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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