Building the Future of Svelte at Vercel

Original: https://codingcat.dev/podcast/2-17-building-the-future-of-svelte-at-vercel

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Questions

1. I don’t know if this man needs an introduction, but can you give us a brief introduction and tell us a little about your previous work with Rollup and Svelte and your work at Vercel?
2. Where does Vercel fit in the future of Svelte?
3. What is the biggest difference in having a compiler vs the virtual dom?
4. How does declarative Svelte turn into efficient imperative code for the browser?
5. What do you envision is the next big thing for Svelte and SvelteKit?
6. What are your thoughts on where the web is going with islands architecture?
7. What are your thoughts on reactivity in Svelte, are there ways to improve on it similar to the SolidJS approach with more fine grained updating?
8. What do you think Svelte has to do to get more market share?
   1. How to get buy in on a team?
9. Do you think the State of JS and other surveys provide value for the community?
10. What is your favorite thing about the Svelte Community?
    1. How many are on the core team?
    2. Move to GitHub Discussions
11. Shadow endpoints are a new for Svelte. What is the reasoning behind adding this and what are the benefits?
    • What about the proposal for an api layout wrapper? ‣
12. Do you think Svelte is the most beginner friendly framework?
    1. Do you think there is value in learning the fundamentals first?

Video Chapters & Timestamps

Jump directly to any segment of Building the Future of Svelte at Vercel on YouTube using the timestamped chapters below:

• 00:00: AM (EST)
• 00:00: Intro
• 00:00: Rich Harris Intro
• 00:00: How is Vercel?
• 00:00: Vercel helping to grow Svelte
• 00:00: What is Svelte
• 00:00: Compiler and vDOM
• 00:00: Svelte 4, SvelteKit 1.0 expectations
• 00:00: Could Svelte be larger than other frameworks
• 00:00: Is Svelte looking at fixing 3rd party scripts
• 00:00: Builder.io Sponsor
• 00:00: Islands Architecture and Fine Grained Reactivity
• 00:00: How can Svelte get more market share and buy-in?
• 00:00: VC backed open-source
• 00:00: State of JS, Svelte is on the top
• 00:00: What is your favorite part of Svelte Community?
• 00:00: WebDev is supposed to be fun!
• 00:00: Svelte Core Team
• 00:00: GitHub Discussions
• 00:00: Discord Help Threads

Resources, Links & Official Documentation

• *Watch on YouTube: *Building the Future of Svelte at Vercel Full Video (plus Subscribe to CodingCat.dev)
• *builder.io: *https://Builder.io
• *Show Pick: *Creating Generative SVG Grids (picked by Alex Patterson)
• *Show Pick: *Geoff Rich generative grids using Svelte (picked by Alex Patterson)
• *Show Pick: *Svelte Discord (picked by Brittney Postma)
• *Show Pick: *CodingCat.dev - Intro to Svelte Course (picked by Brittney Postma)
• *Show Pick: *Timemore Chestnut C2 Manual Coffee Grinder (picked by Rich Harris)
• *Show Pick: *Stackblitz for Svelte (picked by Rich Harris)
• Rich Harris Guest Profile & Episodes on CodingCat.dev
• Rich Harris on GitHub
• Episode Sponsor: Builder.io
• Svelte & SvelteKit Documentation: Runes, compiler internals, and full-stack SvelteKit routing
• Vercel Documentation: Edge network deployments, serverless functions, and frontend cloud
• GitHub Documentation: Pull requests, GitHub Actions CI/CD, and repository security

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What are the main takeaways from Building the Future of Svelte at Vercel?

We caught up with Rich Harris to see how he was settling into his new role with Vercel and what is next for Svelte. 2.17 - Building the Future of Svelte at Vercel with Rich Harris: We caught up with Rich Harris to see how he was settling into his new role with Vercel and what is next for Svelte. https://codingcat.dev/podcast/2-17-building-the-future-of-svelte-at-vercel Sponsors

https://Builder.io

Empower your entire team to visually create and optimize high-speed experiences Throughout this podcast, Rich Harris breaks down real-world implementation details for Svelte, Vercel, GitHub so developers can apply these patterns directly in production.

How do you implement Svelte best practices in production?

When adopting Svelte and Vercel in a production stack, start by validating your configuration against the Svelte & SvelteKit Documentation (Runes, compiler internals, and full-stack SvelteKit routing). Focus on incremental adoption, automated testing, and observability so your team can measure performance and developer velocity improvements at each stage.

Where can I watch the full Building the Future of Svelte at Vercel walkthrough and find related code resources?

You can watch the complete video session for Building the Future of Svelte at Vercel on the CodingCat.dev YouTube channel. For a deeper dive into Svelte, check out our related guide: Reviewing 2021 and predicting 2022.