Svelte

As part of trying out Svelte, I’ve also stepped into the modern web development ecosystem. I previously worked primarily in Clojurescript, so my reference point is based on being away from conventional web dev for many years. The Good Parts Getting Started is Easy Having not have to build anything yourself is can be nice if you want to deliver something quickly. This is doubly true when Svelte allows you to pull a library that doesn’t have explicit view framework support (eg - ReactJS). Need auth? Use AuthJS. Everything is so easy. ...

Disclaimer: I didn’t learn Svelte before v5, so this is an experience report on translating Svelte 4 code to 5. This is a blind jump into Svelte. The Basics Svelte components end in .svelte like .jsx or .tsx. They look more HTML-like than JavaScript. In comparison, ReactJS is more JavaScript-like than HTML. <script> let { name } = $props(); </script> <h1>Hello, {name}!</h1> Typescript To use TypeScript, add lang=”ts” to the script tag: ...