Summary
In this episode we sit down with Rich Harris — creator of Svelte — and talk about the recent development of Svelte and SvelteKit.
Sponsored by Svelte Summit (https://www.sveltesummit.com/)
Svelte Summit is an event dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. Don't miss it! It's going to be an absolute blast. It's happening on May 8 and 9, 2025 in Barcelona Spain.
Discussion
• Rich Harris introduction
• Svelte 5 Feedback
• Simon and Paolo shoutout
• New command line tool: npx sv migrate svelte-5
• Advent of Svelte
• Svelte
• error boundaries
• bind: set/get
• Actions
• Async stuff
• Load in Kit
• Stores not scoped!!! WHY NOT?
• Kit
• State based equivalents of the stores
• AsyncContext/AsyncLocalStorage
• Error boundaries built-in
• Partial Pre-rendering
• JSNation
• Hot takes
• Rich: We need more hot tak
• Kevin: SQLite is the best
• PIcks
• Rich:
• Bluesky
• Book - Lifespan, David Sinclair