Svelte Radio
By Kevin Åberg Kultalahti
Svelte RadioJul 21, 2020
Rich Harris, The Big Announcement
This week we had the pleasure of speaking with the creator of Svelte, Rich Harris. The topics of the podcast can be seen below but first we have a big announcement! TypeScript support for Svelte is finally, officially here! Hallelujah!
Links and other fun stuff:
- Frontend Masters course by Rich Harris
- Svite
- Pancake and Layercake
- MalinaJS
Picks (amazon affiliate links):
Svelte Society Day: End of Summer Edition
After a couple of weeks we're once again back, talking about all things Svelte! This episode we discuss a whole lot of stuff: the next Svelte Society Day, maintainers meet, recipes, some new resources and a cool new Podcast Player for KaiOS. Check out the deets below in no particular order:
- New Svelte Society website (Staging!). Help out by contacting me, i'm @Kev on the Svelte Discord.
- Amelia Wattenberger's svelte.recipes site
- Svite = Svelte + Vite. Use Svelte and Vite
- Cloud Native Web Development by Mike Nikles
- A new static site generator called JungleJS
- Learn in Public book page written in Svelte. Hosted on begin. Also some talk about Cloudflare Worker Sites.
- Showcase topics: PodLP, Unofficial newsletter, July 18th Meetup in India, Pokedex, Textmoji, Svelte Society France and CFPs
- Picks: Sensible Side Buttons, Twitter Links, Foam
Hillary Clinton tweeted about Svelte
In this latest episode we talk a great deal of things, I've added most of the links that we talked about in a list below. Enjoy!
We're currently looking for sponsors to make sure the production value of the podcast goes up. At the moment we're just doing this on our free time and the editing could for sure be better. If you are interested in talking about this, find me on the Svelte Discord (i'm @Kev).
- MDSveX, markdown in Svelte.
- Svelte REPL pull request. Try it out!
- Frontend Masters course by Rich Harris!
- Svelte Society Discord. Join and check out the french meetup scene!
- Svelte Society Amsterdam Meetup. Writing preprocessors and migrating to SvelteJS
- Open Source Awards! Make sure to vote for Svelte if you figure out how.
- Request For Comments on built-in Actions in Svelte. Which actions would you like to see by default?
- Hillary Clinton tweets about Svelte. Sort-of. An intro to Pancake.
- Svelte in production at pace.dev and used by Square Enix for the Kingdom Hearts website.
- Showcase: JungleJS (gatsby/gridsome) and Unicode Lookup.
- Picks: external monitor, ergonomics and Hey.
TypeScript Language Tools
In this episode we're extremely excited to talk with Simon and Orta about TypeScript support in Svelte. From what we can tell, it seems it's already here! What a time to be alive!
We talk a bit about what TypeScript is, what it solves and some of the challenges implementing support for it. We end the episode with a show-and-tell where Simon shows us around the git repo where all the work is happening. If you're listening to this you can find the video (video starts 34:22) at the Svelte Society Youtube Channel.
Resources:
- Language Server Protocol
- Svelte Language Tools
- Some Issues to take a look at: #11, #4797
In Defense of The Modern Web
This week we talk about a bunch of fun topics! In no particular order:
- Rich Harris' In Defense of The Web
- Kevins article on actions.
- Bundler work and HMR in Svelte: Nollup, Vite, Snowpack
- New contributors resources: CONTRIBUTING, ROADMAP
- Contributing in practice: Li Hau's bug fix story
- Built in Svelte: Googles Performance Benchmark
- Scott teaches Wes about Svelte
- TypeScript almost here? Next episode we will bring on some of the active contributors to discuss it. Stay tuned!
- Microsoft releases Azure Static Sites. Builds one live using Svelte! Unfortunately somewhere in this 48 hours stream
- Scott Tolinski builds a Svelte and Meteor application. Free series!
- Keying things. Relevant background info: Sebastian Markbåge, Nik Graf. Svelte Workaround
- Pub quiz? If you're interested, give us a shoutout on the Discord!
- Discussion about an upcoming official router
- Shawn talks about his book.
Picks:
- Shawn: Baseus W01 Earphones
- Antony: Browserstack
- Kevin: Plausible
Post Svelte Society Day
Shawn, Antony and Kevin sit down for a talk about the latest happenings in Svelte land. We talk about Svelte Society Day, some new courses, Snowpack, Typescript and much more.
Topic links:
The Beginning
In this very first episode of the Svelte Radio show check out what has been happening the last week in Svelteworld.
Show notes can be found here: https://www.svelteradio.com/the-beginning