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My First Impressions of Svelte

David on February 01, 2021

After hearing a lot about Svelte over the last few months, I've finally decided to take the plunge and give it a try. Since this is my first time p...
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Dmitry Boichev •

One thing you failed to mention early in the article is that svelte is a dev dependency not a runtime dependency. Pretty important point that should be made right away to differentiate it from react, vue, etc.

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David •

That’s a good point. My next step is to build something and unpack how Svelte actually works under the hood.

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Jon Randy πŸŽ–οΈ •

Svelte - a radical new approach that is incredibly similar to the considerably older, and brilliant Riot.js

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David • • Edited

I hadn’t heard of riot before. Thanks!

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Shriji •

Welcome to Svelte :)

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David •

Thanks! Feels a little overdue

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Domenik Reitzner •

Happy svelting πŸ˜‰

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David •

Thanks! It’s been fun so far

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Mayur Borse •

Thanks for the introduction to svelte. I just tried svelte using Deno's snel module. Works great.

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Joel N. Walkley •

Can you tell me about how Svelte handles API data? Is that just in the script tag with a fetch? Or is it more opinionated than that?

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David •

I’m not exactly sure myself yet. Are you trying to understand how you can make server calls right in your Svelte component?