Svelte Radio

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):

• The Executioner
• Raspberry Pi 4
• Microsoft Sculpt
• Volumio

• 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

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.

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

• 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

• Scrimba course
• Firebase course
• 7 hour FreeCodeCamp course
• svelte-forms
• Svelte Society Day channel: and a gist with information.
• A svelte CLI?
• Compile Svelte in your head (Part 3)
• Transition PR and context from Dan Abramov
• Ignoring warnings
• Contribute to a11y warnings
• Tag named anchor broke apps