Episode 98: Svelte with Rich Harris

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Rich Harris @Rich_Harris

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Resources:

• Svelte
• The Guardian
• NY Times
• The JavaScript Framework that puts web pages on a diet
• Mustache js
• Handlebars js
• jQuery templates
• jQuery
• DS.js
• D3 on GitHub
• What is SVG
• Backbone.js
• innerHTML
• Raphael
• Example Svelte app
• React and the Virtual DOM
• Svelte REPL
• Sapper and Svelte
• Next.js for React apps
• Rube Goldberg machine
• VS Code
• Svelte extension for VS Code
• Svelte 3 for VS Code
• Learn Box Alignmnet
• Svelte JS on Twitter

Timejumps

• 01:30 Guest introduction
• 02:19 Why did you create Svelte?
• 07:24 Where does the size come from?
• 13:04 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 14:05 What were some of the areas that didn't play well with SVG?
• 17:32 What's your pitch for Svelte?
• 25:15 What is Sapper?
• 35:46 Why bring Svelte to people who aren't as familair with React or Vue?
• 45:05 Sponsor: Nrwl
• 45:36 How much is happening in the DOM vs the browser?
• 46:51 What's next for Svelte?
• 50:32 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.

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