2.17 - 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.

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

00:00 - Intro 00:16 - Rich Harris Intro 01:10 - How is Vercel? 02:07 - Vercel helping to grow Svelte 03:55 - What is Svelte 06:00 - Compiler and vDOM 09:18 - Svelte 4, SvelteKit 1.0 expectations 11:18 - Could Svelte be larger than other frameworks 13:25 - Is Svelte looking at fixing 3rd party scripts 16:19 - Builder.io Sponsor 17:41 - Islands Architecture and Fine Grained Reactivity 19:13 - How can Svelte get more market share and buy-in? 21:27 - VC backed open-source 22:00 - State of JS, Svelte is on the top 25:50 - What is your favorite part of Svelte Community? 26:57 - WebDev is supposed to be fun! 27:30 - Svelte Core Team 30:42 - GitHub Discussions 32:18 - Discord Help Threads 32:40 - Shadow Endpoints 36:56 - Middleware 38:18 - Endpoint from JS to JSON 39:55 - Is Svelte the best beginner framework? 42:43 - Should people learn JS before Svelte? 44:26 - Purrfect Picks 44:56 - Timemore Chestnut C2 Manul Coffee Grinder 46:43 - StackBlitz can run SvelteKit in the Browser 48:03 - Purrfect.dev Stackblitz with Tomek 48:24 - Svelte Discord Server 49:09 - Intro to Svelte Course on CodingCatDev 49:41 - Frontend Horse Generative Grid in Svelte 50:40 - Thank you

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