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SponsorThis week's episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late! We already have some confirmed speakers: Rich Harris, 🐧 Pngwn and Amelia Wattenberger! DescriptionDominik joins us to talk about a really cool new feature that he has just enabled in vite-plugin-svelte MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes Rixo the HMR magician 🧙‍♂️ Svite from Svelte Summit vite-plugin-svelte Nollup Snowpack Post Mortem pnpm Cloudflare D1 (SQLite-ish Serverless DB) Li Hau's video on building an inspector Config Options to get started Matthias Stahl (Higsch) Dataviz Talk at Svelte Summit Unpopular Opinions Dominik: Cloudproviders Picks Kevin:  Brittney: Sirens talk's: First, Second Dominik: Vite and Svelte community 🥳 Bjorn Lu Antony: Reclaim Shawn: Pyscript, Tweet Reminders Meetups Stockholm May 19th London May 26th New York June 1st

SponsorThis week's episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late! We already have some confirmed speakers: Rich Harris, 🐧 Pngwn and Amelia Wattenberger! DescriptionGeoff Rich is a recent addition to the Svelte maintainer org. He joins us to talk about his role and what he'd like to work on going forward. Oh, and there's some Svelte Summit in here as well! MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes Geoff works at Alaska Air Auro Design System Geoff's Blog Geoff's a11y blog post, Svelte Summit Fall 2021 talk The Search Bar on the SvelteKit Documentation Page prefers-reduced-motion Svelte Summit Spring 2022 Mentioned talks Monogram's journey building an enterprise-grade app with SvelteKit Bert's The Highs and Lows of Migrating a Massive Ecommerce Website To Svelte and Sveltekit 🐧 pngwn's Svelte In Motion Scott's Tackle Complex Async Behavior One Step at a Time With Svelte Stores Meetball session was a lot of fun! Svelte Summit Fall 2022 website is being released... a couple of days ago! Tickets here. Unpopular Opinions Geoff: Web Components are actually pretty cool! Brittney: Jamstack is cool. Antony: Wordpress should be used for blogging and nothing else. Kevin: Project Gutenberg is 🔥 Picks Kevin: Concerts are so much fun! The Wombats  Boomer Seats™️ 🪑 in the back are great Brittney: House cleaners & Developer Experience at Netlify Blog Post Geoff: Video game music as coding music. Kirby and the Forgotten Land! Antony: Red Light Therapy Device for Hay Fever

SponsorThis weeks episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late! We already have some confirmed speakers: Rich Harris, 🐧 Pngwn and Amelia Wattenberger! DescriptionThis week we chat about what it takes to host a Svelte meetup! Interested in running one? Just go for it! MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes Svelte Society Stockholm Svelte London Svelte Society NYC Svelte Summit Meetup Luma List of Meetups on the Svelte Society website (a bit out of date) Code of Conduct Minor Tips: Avoid pizza, get something healthy! Set the expectations to three talks: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced Make it fun, sometimes a hackathon is all that you need. People like to talk and get to know each other! Unpopular Opinions Shawn: Pure SSG died in 2022 Antony: JSX is NOT JavaScript. Kevin: Bitcoin Proof-of-Work is actually good for the environment. Part 1, Part 2, Twitter thread Picks Kevin: CastoPod  Overcast PocketCasts Don't use Spotify. Shawn: HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1

SponsorThis week's episode is sponsored by ExtraStatic. ExtraStatic is a hosting service for Svekyll blogs. Svekyll blogs combine the simple conventions of Jekyll with the incredible power of Svelte. Check it out at ExtraStatic.com. DescriptionRich Harris joins us for discussion on Svelte, SvelteKit, Hydration and a lot of other fun stuff. Enjoy! MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes Svelte Summit Spring 2022 on April 30th! Svelte London Meetup 28th Svelte Summit Fall 2022 in Stockholm on September 8-9 Stay tuned for the website! Svelte Society NYC Rich's Talk and the Society tweet Svelte Radio Episode 39 on Page Endpoints and Named Layouts Svelte Radio Episode 40 on Svelte Element Unpopular Opinions Antony: Nested code blocks make code hard to read! Shawn: Edge functions will reshape frontend architecture Rich: Hydration is NOT pure overhead Article mentioned Fred K Schott's take Ryan Carniato's take Sebastian Markbåge's take Picks Kevin: Severance Counterpart Antony: Houzecheck - cheapest - best service - contacted me to ask about specifics Rich: Oculus Quest 2 Shawn: The Svelte Community Web Standards in SvelteKit docs Svelte Sirens on Landing Pages KitDocs Sv-popup Svelte-splitpanes SupaComments Svelte Black Hole Brittney Postma's Course Mike's Svelte Course Rill Data Developer

SponsorThis week's episode is sponsored by ExtraStatic. ExtraStatic is a hosting service for Svekyll blogs. Svekyll blogs combine the simple conventions of Jekyll with the incredible power of Svelte. Check it out at ExtraStatic.com. DescriptionThis week we talk about the upcoming Svelte Summit events as well as the new kid on the block - svelte:element MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes Svelte Summit Spring 2022 on April 30th! Announced talks: Svelte - a shortcut to a11y? by Josefine Schaefer Svelte Native in production by Kyohei Hamaguchi Sign up to the email list for updates Svelte Summit Fall 2022 on September 8-9 in Stockholm Only a few Super Early Bird tickets left! Speakers Confirmed: Rich Harris (creator of Svelte) Pete Allen (creator of MDSveX) 🐧 svelte:element - you can now easily dynamically render HTML tags in Svelte. Documentation Tutorial Pull Request by Yuichiro Yamashita A demo by Geoff Rich Ryan Atkinson showing us how much code he could save Kit is now using TurboRepo TurboRepo Why TurboRepo by Shawn Unpopular Opinions Kevin: SaaS products are expensive and overrated, just selfhost! Antony: I should be unbanned from Twitter Shawn: Redwood is viable now. Picks Kevin: Nextcloud Kevin's second one: Purelymail Antony: Plyometric Pushups! Do 'em! Shawn: Twitter browser undo is TERRIBLE

SponsorThis week's episode is sponsored by ExtraStatic. ExtraStatic is a hosting service for Svekyll blogs. Svekyll blogs combine the simple conventions of Jekyll with the incredible power of Svelte. Check it out at ExtraStatic.com. DescriptionThis week Antony and Kevin discuss the latest additions to SvelteKit; Page Endpoints, Named Layouts and Parameter Matching. MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes Page Endpoints Named Layouts Advanced Routing: Pattern matching Unpopular Opinions Kevin: AWS is a proper headache Picks Antony: Depushang DT8 Kev: Human Interaction at offices

SponsorThis week's episode is sponsored by ExtraStatic. ExtraStatic is a hosting service for Svekyll blogs. Svekyll blogs combine the simple conventions of Jekyll with the incredible power of Svelte. Check it out at ExtraStatic.com. DescriptionThis week we talk with Domenik Reitzner about a project they've built and launched using SvelteKit. MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes Billa Service Svackages How to build a preorder service with SvelteKit in 8 weeks at the We Are Developers Conference Decathlon UK Unpopular Opinions Antony: If your product is shoddy and full of bugs, your support staff should know what they’re doing, if your product is good and well maintained, then you can afford to have incompetent support staff. Swyx: Github Issues is an amazing CMS! Example Domenik: Use the tool that is right for the job! Picks Antony: Pinebook Pro! Kev: DSLR as a webcam Swyx: https://2021.stateofjs.com/en-US/ Domenik: Regex search and replace in VSCode. Also: https://regexlearn.com/

SponsorThis week's episode is sponsored by ExtraStatic. ExtraStatic is a hosting service for Svekyll blogs. Svekyll blogs combine the simple conventions of Jekyll with the incredible power of Svelte. Check it out at ExtraStatic.com. DescriptionWe talk with Chris Toomey of the Bike Shed podcast about him and is teams bet on Svelte at Sagewell Financial MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes Sagewell Financial Style Directive Const Block Shawns IE11 Article Inertiajs Temporal and Sidekiq Unpopular Opinions Antony: Wordle can either use a .co.uk domain or use us-english words, not both! Kev: SQLite is amazing Scaling SQLite to 4m QPS on a Single Server A future for SQL on the web Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages Ansiwave BBS Swyx: Brian Holt's unpopular opinion - React Hooks don't scale Chris: Developers shouldn’t call themselves “Framework X developer” but rather “Web Developer” Picks Kev: Camo - using your iPhone as a webcam Antony: Stath lets flats Swyx: Obsidian and swyx's second brain Chris: Cleanshot X

DescriptionAfter a short hiatus we're back! We talk about Svelte Summit, Svelte Sirens and lots of other fun stuff! MusicIntro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes Svelte Summit YouTube Playlist Mini Edition Stockholm Edition London Edition Svelte Compiler re-written in Rust? Rich’s interview with Vercel Article on the subject Rich Harris on JSParty Svelte is a rising star Simon's end-of-year recap of Svelte Language Tools Search and Delete Svelte REPLs Svemix Svelte Cubed and Expanse What's new in Svelte: January Whitespace PR Svelte Dublin needs adopting Svelte Portugal signing people up Svelte Sirens Events Unpopular opinions Antony: NFTs - provenance on the blockchain, apes Kev: Safari is actually the best browser Shawn: Monorepos will be a hot trend this year Picks Kev: Fat Washing https://www.seriouseats.com/science-fat-washing-spirits-cocktails-how-fatwashing-works Antony - Oculus swyx: iphone 13 pro max

We sit down with Rich Harris to talk about his new job, leaving The New York Times and what the future of Svelte looks like. Enjoy! Description Remembering some New York Times stories The Follower Factory The Surveillance Economy  Corona Tracker Olympics Graphics Joining Vercel to work full time on Svelte Svelte Summit  Watch Parties New York Mainz, Germany Music by Fractal (He also made the intro to Svelte Radio 🧡) Svelte Summit Summer Edition Sign up to get updates Unpopular Opinion Antony: Docks are pointless! Gnome3 Shawn: Pre commit hooks are good Rich: There are too many programmer podcasts Brian LeRoux Picks Kevin: The new Macbook Pro is amazing ROI Calculator Antony: https://handshake.org/ - free cryptocurrency if you have enough github followers Shawn: codingfont.com Azeret Pro Rich Harris: Soup in general

We talk about the recently released Svelte Summit website and a bunch of other fun stuff! Show Notes Work at Beyonk! What's new in Svelte: September What's new in Svelte: October New Svelte Summit website Design by Johan Ronsse (Wolfr_2 on Twitter) SvelteKit is awesome. CSS is awesome. Email form enhancement action DCI-P3 is just... WOW! WebKit and Safari support Hacks for other browsers Svelte Summit CFPs (last day 30th October!) Svelte Summit sponsor opportunities Meetups starting back up! Svelte Society Stockholm Unpopular Opinions Shawn: No seed oils Kevin: Regular old CSS is king 👑 Picks Antony: Lumen Couture LED Face Changing Mask Shawn: How to Be Miserable For the Rest of Your Life Kevin: Swedish Cinnamon Buns 

We sit down and talk with Jake and Willow and talk about the just-released Routify 3. Notes Routify and their Discord server Version 3 Stackmix: A Template Generator for Routify SpaSSR: A small express server with SSR Spank: Slap the pages out of an SPA ToSSR: Universal SPA to SSR Configent: No Fuss Configurator Meteor: Open-source Framework for Building Applications Meatier: Like Meteor but Meatier Unpopular Opinions Antony: Saas pricing suck SSO tech shame site Shawn: We will want Svelte to stop growing at some point Bikeshed podcast https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-web-frameworks https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-technologies-webframe Jake: Filing bug reports and getting asked "Why did you do it like this?? Picks Antony: Gohire.io Shawn: Supabase Spotify Native client: Psst Kevin: Muji Linen clothes Jake: Clickup.com https://codestory.co/podcast/e3-alex-yurkowski-clickup/ Willow: Grid LayoutIt Complete CSS Grid Grid Critters

Today we talk with Grygrflzr about his journey to becoming a maintainer and his views on React, Vite and a host of other things. Enjoy! Notes: Svelte is the most loved framework Scott Tolinski: 5 Things I like about Svelte Scott Tolinski: 5 More things I like about Svelte Dev environment issue Unpopular Opinions: Shawn: Social media > SEO > Social media Empty States Picks Antony: Swoon Editions Furniture Kevin: Warp Terminal Shawn: Spider Man Miles Morales Martin: Picking monitors is hard.

We welcome Tan Li Hau back for a second time. This time we talk about his YouTube channel where he has been creating some stellar content! Show notes: Micro Frontends Webpack 5 Module Federation Li Hau's YouTube channel How to call functions from the parent Svelte Stores Twitter profile Constants in markup draft PR (RFC) Picks: Antony: Peloton Treadmill Shawn: Chef (2014) Kevin: Beerrunners concept Li Hau: Svelte Question Time Playlist

Scott Tolinski is back! He's been a busy bee rebuilding LevelUpTuts using SvelteKit. We get all the juicy details! Notes svelte-toy Rich Harris's Svelte Metaphysics talk link https://www.swyx.io/svelte-metaphysics/ svelte-toast Remix framework Course: Building Svelte Components Course: SvelteKit Course: Animating Svelte Unpopular Opinions Antony: Email sucks Shawn: All JavaScript functions should only be allowed to take one argument. Picks Shawn: Write Less, Do More Antony: Kilner Jars Kevin: THE VACCINE! Scott: A Death in Crypto Land

Support the show - become a patron! Brittney has an unusual background and an interesting story! We ask her about mentoring, teaching and how she got WebDev. Enjoy! Brittney also has her own podcast called Purrfect.dev. Music:Intro - Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes: codingcat.dev Purrfect.dev freeCodeCamp Zero to Mastery The Console Logs Discord Communities Coding Cat LevelUpTuts Learn Build Teach SpaceJelly PartyCorgi Zero to Mastery (you need to pay for a course) Unpopular Opinion: Brittney: I'm done with React Antony: Chai is not a good a good assertion library. Use @hapi/code instead! Picks: Shawn: Superhuman Kev: Chai tea (especially latte!) Brittney: Black Monday (and Kev's tip The Big Short) and Polywork

Support the show - become a patron! We sit down with Nick to talk about Elder.js - an insanely fast static site generator built on-top of Svelte with support for partial hydration. Music:Intro - Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes: FindEnergy Unpopular Opinion: Shawn: Svelte IDE Earlier episode with Mike from GitPod Nick: Hydration should be included by default Picks: Antony: Not today! Shawn: Learn CSS from Google Kev: WebAuthn Nick: PostGraphile

Support the show - become a patron! We're back after a short break with a new episode. We talk about what's new in Svelte and what we've been up to! Oh. And this is sort-of our 1 Year anniversary! 🥳 Music:Intro - Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Notes: Scott Tolinski's LevelUp Tuts SvelteKit conversion livestream New CSS Custom Property Feature (Kev's REPL showcase) New CSS selector feature in the compiler New Style directive hopefully coming soon (Read the RFC) What's new in Svelte (Newsletter) Stricter body types, etags for binary responses Remove getContext in favour of request.locals Redhatters Svelte Devtools New SvelteKit Package feature Svelte Knobby SvelteKit Breakthrough of the year nominee Unpopular Opinion: Antony: Vegan equivalents are actually better than the real thing in a lot of cases Shawn: VSCode Sidebar on the right gang Bonus VSCode tip Kev: SublimeText 4 gang Picks: Antony picks no-water cleaning supplies again; Homethings. (Cleancult, Blueland) Shawn: Svelte Form Libraries Kev: Swedish Summer & Gelato. Top Gelato parlor in Stockholm: Snö.

Mike Nikles (Twitter) from GitPod joins us to talk about the journey they took from Gatsby, to Sapper and finally to SvelteKit. We talk about the ups and downs. Notes:- GitPod's website built in Svelte (GitHub) Picks:- Kevin: Chocolate Balls- Antony: QR Scanners- Shawn: Josh Nussbaum- Mike: TimeZone.io Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com) Transcription:Coming soon.

Sponsors Filevine: Client, workflow and document management - the Work Operating System for Professionals. GitPod: Remove all friction from the developer experience to be always ready-to-code and make software engineering more collaborative, joyful, and secure. Budibase: Build internal tools on your own infrastructure in minutes. This is the Q&A that followed the Rich's SvelteKit update from Svelte Summit yesterday. If you didn't catch that, you can find it here. In this Q&A we talk to Rich and ask him SvelteKit, enjoy! PS. Sorry about the audio, it's ripped from YouTube and unfortunately not using our regular recording method. We hope you'll like it anyway! Transcription:Not this time, sorry!