Supper Club × Rich Harris, Author of Svelte

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with the author of Svelte, Rich Harris, about what influenced the creation of Svelte, his thoughts on web components, the virtual DOM, why companies are switching to Svelte, and what’s next for Svelte. Gatsby - Sponsor Today’s episode was sponsored by Gatsby, the fastest frontend for the headless web. Gatsby is the framework of choice for content-rich sites backed by a headless CMS as its GraphQL data layer makes it straightforward to source website content from anywhere. Gatsby’s opinionated, React-based framework makes the hardest parts of building a performant website simpler. Visit gatsby.dev/syntax to get your first Gatsby site up in minutes and experience the speed. ⚡️ Lightstep Incident Response - Sponsor Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Usage-based pricing on active services promotes collaboration across your entire team to build a culture of service ownership. Listeners of Syntax will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident. Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. Show Notes 00:33 Welcome 02:10 Who is Rich Harris? Rich Harris on Twitter 02:55 What is Svelte? Svelte Vercel Svelte Kit 06:52 What influenced the template language for Svelte? 10:03 What do you use the const tag for? 10:49 Sponsor: Gatsby 12:04 What about immutability issues? 17:49 What about web components? 21:51 Why does Svelte not need the virtual DOM? 27:34 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response 28:45 What is your favorite part of working in Svelte? 32:31 Why are companies switching to Svelte? 34:35 What is the SvelteKit timeline? 38:52 What’s the next version of Svelte include? Motion 41:36 Any thoughts on new backend JavaScript environments? Web Interoperability 45:39 Supperclub Questions 52:40 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Rich: Mullvad VPN Shameless Plugs Svelte Origins Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	I sure hope you're hungry!
0:02.4	Who I'm starving?
0:04.2	Wash those hands, pull up a chair, and secure that feedback.
0:08.1	Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and Wes Boss' attempt to use human language to converse with
0:14.2	and pick the brains of other developers.
0:16.8	I thought there was gonna be food.
0:18.7	So buckle up and grab that old f***ing handle.
0:21.7	Because this ride is going to get wild.
0:25.6	This is The Syntax Sapper Club.
0:36.6	Welcome to Syntax on today's Syntax Sapper Club.
0:41.1	We have the author of Svelte, Rich Harrison, to talk all things Svelte.
0:46.1	And if you are new to Svelte, you don't know what it is.
0:49.6	This will be a good one for you as well as if you are experienced with Svelte.
0:53.1	My name is Scott Tolinsky.
0:54.1	I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado.
0:56.1	And with me, as always, is Wes Boss.
0:59.1	Everybody, stoked to talk about Svelte today.
1:02.1	Yeah, me too.
1:04.1	Welcome, Rich.
1:05.1	How's it going, man?
1:07.1	It's going great.
1:08.1	How are you?
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