Svelte Meetup Demo

Presentation

I talked about Svelte and SvelteKit at our recent Port Townsend Web Developer's Meetup. In preparation, I created a github repository, ptwd-sveltedemo, which gave rough examples of how one might use Svelte in various ways.

As mentioned in the github readme, the "site" is a mishmash of various things, mainly intended to illustrate possibilities.

• It is certainly not an example of perfect design!

Ths site is also live on netlify. It features

• A reactive page, used for an interactive game.
• A storefront for rare books.
• A Markdown blog, which was the core of the actual presentation.

My Thoughts

Svelte and SvelteKit are approachable and appealing. There's occasional "what's that?" at the syntax, but, overall, most everything looks like HTML, a template language, or JavaScript. The tutorials provide a good bottom up viewpoint. I would have appreciated more information from a top-down perspective.

Reactions

Reactions vere very favorable.

• The organizer works mainly with WordPress, but is interested in trying Svelte.
• A few of the audience were familiar with Angular and appreciated the differences
  • One said "I didn't even know you could use + and [ in filenames"
• Some of the audience, more "hardware types", had just worked with simple static .html websites, and gained an appreciation of why a framework like Svelte might be useful.
• Unfortunately, our two React developers couldn't make it to compare the two frameworks. I will have a followup meeting with one of them.