Summary
In this episode we sit down with Timothy Cohen and talk about his project SampleKit and Svelte 5.

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• Background
  • Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski
  • How svelte works under the hood
  • Odin Project - https://www.theodinproject.com
  • MOOC - CS50 Harvard X
• SampleKit - https://www.samplekit.dev
  • 3 different things
    • Preprocessor (mdsvex)
    • melt-ui
    • alternative to mdsvex
  • Demos
    • caprover
    • coolify
    • dokku
    • shopify
    • Sasa Juric
  • Articles
    • TypeSafe Fetch Handler - https://www.samplekit.dev/articles/typesafe-fetch-handler
    • SvelteKit Search Params - https://github.com/paoloricciuti/sveltekit-search-params
• What do you think about Svelte 5?
  • Reactive Statements
  • Snippets
• Picks
  • Timothy: Crafting Interpreters by Robert something (look up)
  • Kevin: New York
• Email: contact@timcohen.dev
• GitHub: timothycohen

Summary
In this episode we sit down with Dominik G — a Svelte maintainer — and talk about Svelte 5 and the new Environment API in Vite 6.

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Svelte Summit is an event dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. Don't miss it! It's going to be an absolute blast. It's happening on May 8 and 9, 2025 in Barcelona Spain.

Discussion

• Who is Dominik?
  • vite-ecosystem-ci
• Dominiks talk at JSNation
• Vite
  • Environment
    • Björn Lu
    • Cloudflare Workers
      • Miniflare
    • Samuel Inlang environments for i18n
    • Jeppe Reinhold (Storybook)
• Svelte 5
  • SvelteKit and how the Environment
  • Error Boundaries (PR here)
  • Migrating
    • $: to run function
    • Don’t reach for effect, use derived!
    • You can use effect to get the same functionality as onMount/Destroy
• Hackathon
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  • Wolfensvelte
  • Threltemania

Summary
In this episode we sit down with Rich Harris — creator of Svelte — and talk about the recent development of Svelte and SvelteKit.

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Svelte Summit is an event dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. Don't miss it! It's going to be an absolute blast. It's happening on May 8 and 9, 2025 in Barcelona Spain.

Discussion

• Rich Harris introduction
• Svelte 5 Feedback
  • Simon and Paolo shoutout
  • New command line tool: npx sv migrate svelte-5
• Advent of Svelte
  • Svelte
    • error boundaries
    • bind: set/get
    • Actions
    • Async stuff
      • Load in Kit
      • Stores not scoped!!! WHY NOT?
  • Kit
    • State based equivalents of the stores
      • AsyncContext/AsyncLocalStorage
    • Error boundaries built-in
    • Partial Pre-rendering
• JSNation
• Hot takes
  • Rich: We need more hot tak
  • Kevin: SQLite is the best
• PIcks
  • Rich:
    • Bluesky
    • Book - Lifespan, David Sinclair