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Rich Harris: Futuristic Web Development

Svelte Society · 90.5K views · 2020-10-19 · 22:50

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Overview

Rich Harris's Svelte Summit 2020 talk on what a modern web development workflow could look like. It announced that Sapper would give way to what became SvelteKit.

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Cited as the source for Sapper's end and SvelteKit's origin, and as an early view of where JS frameworks were heading.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2020–2022

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qbasic_forever · 2021-03 · Recommendation

Check out the creator's first posts and videos of sveltekit when he introduced the alpha version: [VIDEO] The way I understand it is it's an evolution of sapper to be more versatile, especially with respect to the backend. Out of the box it can work more easily with serverless providers that give you static file hosting + some kind of basic API gateway and serverless function platform. So you can write full stack client and server-side code all using the same framework (like you can with sapper). But the key difference from sapper is that you're not stuck using a node.js backend, with sveltekit you can swap in different backend implementations, like one targeting a serverless/lambda system.

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alexandargyurov · 2021-03 · Recommendation

Rich Harris did a great talk[0] at an early stage of SvelteKit's development called "Futuristic Web Development". I really do believe this is the next phase of how JS web frameworks will work in the future. [0] [VIDEO]

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dmitriid · 2020-11 · Recommendation

In addition to links in sibling comments, there's the official Svelte blog with regular updates: [LINK] and this video from recent conference on the future of Svelte: [VIDEO]

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