What is npmx?

A fast, open-source browser for the npm registry. It consumes the npmjs REST API and adds a better UI and more useful data on top. Started by Daniel Roe (Nuxt lead) ~40 days before recording. Patak joined as co-steward after seeing a two-day prototype.

Features beyond npmjs.com

• ESM vs CJS detection per package
• Bundle size and install size
• Color-coded dependency freshness (yellow = patch behind, red = major behind)
• e18e module replacement warnings when a lighter modern alternative exists
• Package claiming via UI (available locally if you fork the repo)
• Planned: publishing and package management flows

Svelte is #1

Most liked package on npmx at time of recording: Svelte (173), Nuxt (101), Vite (96).

Picks

• Zeu: Hypermedia Systems by Carson Gross. Free online at hypermedia.systems.
• Brittany: Starter Villain by John Scalzi. Comedy about inheriting a villain business.
• Patak: The community blog posts from the npmx launch. Read them if you need a reminder that open source can still be fun.
• Jeppe: Cordless hot glue guns. 10 seconds to heat up, fixes everything.

Hot takes

• Zeu: Stop putting "blue" or "sky" in AT Proto app names. The protocol needs to grow beyond Blue Sky.
• Patak: He's stopped coding in open source. Focusing on people, calls, community. Open source needs more non-coders.

Links

• npmx Alpha Launch Blog Post
• npmx.dev
• npmx GitHub
• npmx Discord
• npmx Open Collective
• Zeu Capua / @zeu.dev on Blue Sky
• Eurosky
• Open Source Pledge
• Hypermedia Systems

State of JS: Frameworks
The hosts analyze the survey results for JavaScript frameworks:

• Svelte: Usage increased slightly to 27% (up from 26%). It maintains the highest interest rating for the sixth consecutive year, though interest is slightly declining—a trend seen across most frameworks. Satisfaction remains high at number two (86%), just behind Solid.
• React: Continues to dominate with 70 million weekly downloads, but interest and satisfaction are declining. The hosts discuss the complexity of React Server Components (RSC) and the risks of framework developers losing touch with practical usage ("dogfooding").
• Solid: Rising in interest and taking the number one spot for satisfaction.
• HTMX: Saw a significant drop in interest, described as a "meme" that has cooled down.
• Web Components: Chatter is growing (e.g., Lit), but usage remains relatively low compared to the push from DevRel teams.

State of JS: Meta-Frameworks

• Next.js: Leads usage significantly at 59% but has low satisfaction, barely beating out Gatsby.
• Astro: Growing rapidly (27% usage) and ranked number one in satisfaction. Its strength lies in supporting multiple frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte).
• SvelteKit: Ranked number two in satisfaction. Interest is declining, likely due to the framework maturing.
• TanStack Start: Noted as a popular write-in option and a strong new alternative to Next.js.
• Analog: Mentioned as an Angular meta-framework powered by Vite.

Libraries & Developer Tools

• The hosts discuss various libraries and tools featured in the survey:
• Validation: Zod is the most used, but Valibot is recommended as a smaller, tree-shakable alternative. Both libraries support the new "Standard Schema" initiative.
• Linting: Oxlint is highlighted as a much faster, Rust-based alternative to ESLint.
• Package Management: The tool ni is recommended for running package manager commands (install, run scripts) agnostically without needing to remember if a project uses npm, yarn, or pnpm.
• Date Libraries: Day.js, date-fns, and Luxon remain popular. The hosts anticipate the upcoming JavaScript Temporal API may eventually replace these.
• jQuery: A new version was released that drops Internet Explorer 11 support and migrates to ES modules.

Picks & Actionable Items
The hosts conclude with their picks for the week:

• Kev's Pick: The TV show "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" (Game of Thrones universe).
• Jeppes's Pick: npmx.dev, a modern, interactive interface for the NPM registry that includes vulnerability alerts and dependency graphs.

Actionable Items:

• Try ni: Use the ni CLI tool to handle package manager commands automatically across different projects.
• Contribute to npmx.dev: The project is looking for contributors. It is described as a friendly community for those wanting to get into open source.
• Avoid AI Spam PRs: If contributing to npmx.dev or other projects, ensure contributions are genuine and not low-effort, AI-generated pull requests.

The gang kicks back for their first episode of the new year, catching up on holidays before diving into AI and vibe coding. Kevin talks bout a gym tracking app he built almost entirely with LLMs. 

They cover updates to the Svelte Society website (job board, sponsorships, newsletter), debate whether Mozilla/Firefox can survive by pivoting to AI, and wrap with hot takes: Kevin warns devs to learn AI tools or risk obsolescence, Brittney shares Claude's take that TypeScript's type system has become its own technical debt, and Jeppe champions the glory of two ultra-wide curved monitors.

Guest

• Paolo Ricciuti — Svelte maintainer and ambassador, Senior Software Developer at Mainmatter

New Host

• Jeppe joins as a permanent co-host!

Topics Discussed

Custom Renderers Overview

• Svelte Custom Renderers website
• What custom renderers are and why they matter
• How React separates React (the diffing library) from React DOM (the renderer)
• Examples of React custom renderers: 
  • Ink — React for terminal/CLI applications
  • React Native — React for iOS/Android native apps
  • Remotion — React for programmatic video creation
  • React PDF renderer for generating documents

Svelte's Technical Approach

• How Svelte 5 uses the <template> element and innerHTML for fast rendering
• The CSP (Content Security Policy) challenges with innerHTML
• Paolo's compiler option contribution to enable programmatic element creation
• The custom renderer API: defining operations like createElement, setText, setAttribute, appendChild, etc.
• Separating the Svelte runtime from DOM-specific code

Lynx.js Integration

• Lynx.js — ByteDance's cross-platform framework (powers parts of TikTok)
• Why Lynx was the catalyst for custom renderer work
• CSS support in Lynx including Flexbox, Grid, and even Tailwind
• The difference between Lynx's element approach vs React Native's component imports

Related Projects & Discussions

• Threlte — Three.js for Svelte (created by Grisha)
• React Three Fiber — Three.js React renderer
• Svelte Native — Existing (but limited) Svelte native solution
• LiveView Native (Elixir/Phoenix) as a comparison for multi-target templating
• Discussion with Grisha about mixing renderers in the same component

Funding & Open Source

• Mainmatter's sponsorship of Paolo's custom renderer work
• First external sponsor for this initiative
• Discussion about using Svelte Open Collective funds for this feature
• Why custom renderers matter for Svelte adoption in enterprise

Paolo's Recent Contributions to Svelte

• onChange callback for $state (PR in progress)
• from action utility
• CSP-friendly compiler option (foundational for custom renderers)

Picks

• Screen Studio — screen.studio — Mac screen recording app with automatic zoom animations (Kevin's pick, used for Advent of Svelte recordings)
• TMCP — github.com/paoloricciuti/tmcp — Paolo's TypeScript MCP (Model Context Protocol) framework, praised for being much better than the official SDK (Jeppe's pick)
• Advent of Svelte — svelte.dev/blog/advent-of-svelte — 24 days of Svelte features and improvements (Brittany's pick)

Links

• Svelte
• SvelteKit
• Mainmatter — Paolo's employer, specializing in Svelte and Rust consulting
• Ink (React CLI)
• React Native
• Remotion
• Lynx.js
• Threlte
• React Three Fiber
• Screen Studio
• TMCP
• Advent of Svelte

Follow

• Paolo Ricciuti: GitHub | Bluesky
• Svelte Radio: svelteradio.com

Topics Discussed

• Working with NGOs vs. traditional businesses
• Budget constraints and project-based funding
• The AfroZensus project
• Svelte 5 migration
• Berlin Svelte Meetup announcement

Berlin Svelte Meetup

• Date: December 9th (Tuesday)
• Venue: Datawrapper's office in Berlin
• Talks: Peter from XYFlow presenting SvelteFlow, plus more
• Registration: https://svelte-berlin.de/

Links Mentioned

Tools & Libraries

• svelte-render-scan (Visual debugging tool by Stanislav Khromov): https://github.com/khromov/svelte-render-scan
• svelte-inspect-value (Value inspector component): https://github.com/ampled/svelte-inspect-value
• SvelteFlow (Node-based UI library): https://svelteflow.dev/
• Friendly Captcha (GDPR-compliant captcha): https://friendlycaptcha.com/
• SparklePost (Native-feeling PWA demo): https://sparklepost.vercel.app/
• @component documentation: https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/basic-markup

Companies & Organizations

• Datawrapper: https://www.datawrapper.de/
• GitButler: https://gitbutler.com/
• XYFlow: https://xyflow.com/

Projects

• Academic Freedom Index: https://academic-freedom-index.net/
• AfroZensus: https://afrozensus.de/
• AfroZensus Dashboard: https://data.afrozensus.de/

Courses

• Practical Accessibility by Sara Soueidan: https://practical-accessibility.today/

Unpopular Opinions

• Kevin: More people should self-host
• Brittney: Lost free Copilot access
• Antony: Store states, not effects
• Ilya: JSDoc is superior to TypeScript

Picks

• Kevin: SparklePost, "You can just do things", The Hierarchy book series by James Islington
• Brittney: @component documentation
• Antony: Friendly Captcha
• Ilya: svelte-render-scan, svelte-inspect-value, Practical Accessibility course

benchmarking tool that scientifically measures how well different LLMs understand and write Svelte 5 code.

The conversation explores the challenges of AI-assisted coding with Svelte 5, the development of the official

Svelte MCP (Model Context Protocol) that provides LLMs with documentation and auto-fixing capabilities, and

the surprising performance differences between major AI providers. Stanislav also shares insights on working

with AI tools, the future of local models, and the economics of AI coding assistants.

Notes

• Stanislav Khromov
• Svelte Bench
  • GitHub
• Svelte MCP
• Anthropic Spending VC Money

Unpopular Opinions

• Kevin: Serverless is overrated
• Stanislav: OpenAI has the worst models of the big three
• Antony: Heat Pumps are bad
  • Technology Connections
  • Tech Ingredients

Picks

• Kevin: Kasai Hibachi Grill (now tested, and can confirm, it is PENG!)
  Stanislav: Ball x Pit
  Antony: Saunas By the Sea

through Rich Harris's "Rethinking Reactivity" talk to building complex financial applications. Ken shares his

experience working on Trading Strategy, a decentralized finance platform, and the challenges of implementing

sophisticated charting solutions.

The conversation also covers Ken's memorable Svelte Summit talk where he

recreated the Macrodata Refinement interface from the TV show Severance, complete with props and staying in

character throughout. The episode touches on testing philosophies, state management with his library Svelte-

FSM, and the newly launched Svelte Society Chicago chapter.

Notes

• Trading Strategy
• LayerChart
• TradingView Lightweight Chart
• xstate
• svelte-fsm
  • Talk
• Runed
• Macrodata Refinement Talk
  • GitHub Repo
  • Website
• Bert B's Svelte Summit Talk
• Svelte Chicago

Picks

• Kevin: Zen Browser
  • Zed
  • Zod
• Antony: n8n
  • Active Pieces
• Brittney: Tab Groups!
• Ken: Rock Climbing!
  • Brene Brown

In this episode of Svelt Radio, the hosts welcome Jeppe Reinhold from Chromatic to discuss the dramatic

improvements in Storybook's Svelte integration. Jeppe shares how a critical video by Brittany struggling with

Storybook setup sparked a complete overhaul of the Svelte experience, leading to better collaboration with the

Svelte core team and significant enhancements in functionality. 

The conversation covers new features like Svelte

CSF for writing stories in native Svelte syntax, improved testing capabilities, support for async components, and

upcoming features in Storybook 10. The team also discusses the philosophy behind component-driven

development, the challenges of integrating with remote functions, and Storybook's future direction including AI

support and better theming capabilities.

Links

• Storybook
  • Storybook Svelte Guide
• addon-svelte-csf

Unpopular Opinions

• Antony: Svelte is an independent project! Don’t throw it in the bin
• Jeppe: I like GANTT charts

Picks

• Antony: Castles!
• Brittney: Spain!
• Jeppe: Tuple

In this episode, Simon Holthausen from the Svelte team joins to discuss remote functions and async Svelte, two

experimental features that are changing how developers interact with data in SvelteKit applications. Remote

functions offer a new RPC-like approach that provides better type safety, more granular data loading, and

improved developer experience compared to traditional load functions and form actions. The conversation

covers the technical implementation, design decisions, and future possibilities including caching, streaming, and

integration with Svelte's upcoming resource API. Simon also explains how async Svelte enables top-level await

in components with coordinated loading boundaries, making asynchronous work much easier to manage in both

SSR and SPA contexts.

Links

• Remote Functions Documentation
• Remote Functions Video by Simon
• Follow-up Video by Simon

Picks

• Simon: Elgato Wave Microphone
• Kevin: CalDigit Thunderbolt 5 Dock TS5 Plus

Next week we talk with Simon about Remote Functions. Don't miss it!

Show Notes

• Introducing SvelteKit Remote Functions, by Simon Holthausen
• SvelteKit Remote Functions tips: Auth guards, managing asynchronous, query.batch
• Svelte Bench
• Tembo

Hot takes

• Kevin: AI generates a lot of Workslop if you're not careful.
• Antony: Find something common and differentiate
• Brittney: Cats are better than dogs.

Picks

• Kevin: Slow Horses
• Brittney: Cate Cafés
• Antony: Gary's Economics 

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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

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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

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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

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Discussion

• Who is Scott?
• Check out Syntax on YT
• Primeagen feud thing
• North Star
• AI Robot
• Building App in Svelte
• Brad frost design system
• Svelte 5 beginners course vs other frameworks
• Svelte 5
• Local first
  • InstantDB
  • Zero Sync
  • Meteor
  • Drop in (project)
  • Svelte Summit talk

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Discussion

• Introduction and background
• Svelte 5 thoughts
• What does Bloomberg use Svelte for?
• Zed editor
• Side projects
• Unpopular opinions
  • Kevin: ORMs are shit, just use SQL
  • Julian: CSS shouldn’t exist
    • CSS Zen Garden: https://csszengarden.com
    • Kevin: https://corset.dev

Picks

•  Kevin: London is great! 
•  Julian: Gooey
  •  Svelte tweak pane: https://github.com/kitschpatrol/svelte-tweakpane-ui
  •  dat.gui: https://github.com/dataarts/dat.gui

Recorded on June 28th, 2024

Discussion:

• Building and maintaining Vite
• Vite vs Snowpack
• Speeding up Vite with Rolldown
• Vite's new Environment API
  • utilizing serverless APIs (Cloudflare D1, Key value etc.)
  • Rich Harris: Electron/Tauri
  • native mobile platforms?
• ViteConf 2024 on October 3

Picks

• Kevin: Sugar (TV show on Apple TV),
• Pete (pngwn): Local first development story
• Matias (patak): Svelte/Kit Tutorial, TutorialKit

Summary
In this episode of Svelte Radio we sit down with Wout De Puysseleir to talk about his project LiveSvelte. A way to easily use Svelte when building applications using the Elixir framework Phoenix. A match made in heaven!

Recorded on November 21st, 2023

Discussion

• Who is Wout?
  • Twitter
  • Website
• What is LiveSvelte?
  • GitHub
  • Blog post
• Elm
• Roc

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: PNPM SHOULD WORK
• Wout: TypeScript isn't that great 😬

Picks

• Wout: The Soul of Erlang
• Kevin: The Lazarus Project
• Brittney: Loki TV Show

Summary
In this episode of Svelte Radio we talk with Enrico about This Week in Svelte - a weekly Svelte show that he runs. Tune in!

Recorded on November 1st, 2024

Discussion

• Enrico
  • Co-founded: Design Systems Community
• Weekly recorded show on YT
  • Co-hosts
    • Karim
    • Paolo
    • Stanisla
  • Changelog
    • Carbon Components Svelte
• Enrico
  • GitHub
  • Twitter

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: [Inertia.js](https://inertiajs.com/)

Picks

• Enrico: The Wandering Earth Part 2
• Kevin: Quest 3

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[intro music]

Hey, welcome everyone to another episode of Svelte Radio.

We're back again.

Ooh, I'm joined by Brittany.

Hello.

Hi.

Back this week.

Back this week, yeah, yeah.

Hello.

And we are joined by another guest.

It's Enrico.

You might know him from this week in Svelte.

Hi, Enrico.

Hey, everybody. Enrico here.

Hey.

So before we get started, Brittany, what's new?

It's been crazy.

I went on vacation last week, so I know I missed our previous guest.

I think we had Jacob on last week, but unfortunately I had to miss that one.

We went to San Antonio where it was kind of warm.

It was like 80s and 90s Fahrenheit, so what, 30?

A little less than 30, maybe 20, 28 Celsius.

That sounds very nice.

But it was overcast the whole time.

So I tried to get in the pool, and it was like windy and cold.

It was like still not warm enough to get in the pool there.

But we came back, and it snowed yesterday for Halloween, so that was good.

We have like probably three to four inches of snow outside now.

Wow.

Yeah, we just got our first falling snow here today.

Oh, really?

So it doesn't stay on the ground, though, because it's not that cold here just yet.

Yeah, our ground is not that cold.

I thought it would melt, but it froze overnight, and it's just like stuck there.

Damn.

Yeah, that doesn't sound like fun.

Maybe you should just go more south.

I've talked about it, yeah.

We just built that pool, though, so we're like 10 years, and our kids are in school still,

so 10 years, and then we'll probably keep this house for the summer when it's nice here

and then move somewhere else, be snowbirds for a while.

Yeah, makes complete sense.

All right, let's talk a bit more with you, Enrico.

Who are you?

That might be a broad question, but how did you get into development?

Who am I?

Yes, well, my name is Enrico Sacchetti, and I am a software developer based in the Greater

Toronto area, Ontario, Canada, and what I like to do is front-end development, and ever

since I was a teenager, that's what I've been doing as a personal hobby, and some opportunities

came along, and before I knew it, it was a full-time job.

So despite my post-secondary education in video game development, I actually pursued

a career in website development because that's where the opportunities lay.

We have had so many people that are video game developers, like by originally video

game developers on the show, right?

Yeah, I feel like that's been a thing.

The person that did Wolfenstein, the felt version of that?

Snuffy, Jason?

Yeah, and a couple of other people were in video game development.

It's kind of like the music thing that we have, too.

A lot of people were musicians before they were programmers, too.

Yeah.

That's interesting.

Yeah, did you get into the game development stuff?

Was that because of interest in gaming in general?

Yeah, it was sort of a misguided interest in video games because as much as I enjoyed

playing them, making them is 100% different.

You need ongoing, persistent passion for that, as I realized the hard way after graduating.

I tried to get jobs across the world, particularly China and Canada, because I was pursuing living

there.

I actually ended up living in China for one year and became an English teacher after graduating.

Oh, cool.

So that's where I learned how to speak Mandarin and teach English.

But even though I was teaching English...

I had no idea you spoke Mandarin.

Yeah, that's a thing I can do.

But aside from that, I found myself on the weekends learning code, HTML, JavaScript,

CSS, because that was my passion.

And game development was not my passion.

In fact, when I had an interview for a job, they told me to my face, "You don't have passion

for games."

And I'm really glad that happened.

That's rough.

As rough as it sounds, I was relieved because I realized this is not for me.

And I found out very early in my career.

So I think that's a very good blessing.

Yeah.

What language was that, that you were doing the video game programming?

Programming language?

Yeah.

In university, I learned C++.

And that's what I used along with some Visual Studio stuff and frameworks.

But I never had professional experience game development.

I just had a couple of portfolio pieces, and I graduated with that.

So I was never a game developer.

I was just a student of one.

And then eventually, I came back to Canada, ...

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Summary
In this episode of Svelte Radio, Jacob Stordahl and the hosts discuss Jacob's transition from WordPress to Svelte and the practical aspects of developing third-party JavaScript widgets. They also touches on the role of AI in content management. Tune in!

Recorded on October 18, 2024

Discussion

• Who is Jacob Stordahl
  • Twitter
  • Website
  • Stylitics
• Svelte Summit Talk Spring 2023

Unpopular Opinions

• Jacob: you shouldn’t use a git ui! git is poorly designed
  • freeCodeCamp Course
• Kevin: you shouldn’t use fetch() on the client
• Antony: MacOS is not that great!

Picks

• Jacob: Staff Engineer by Will Larson
• Kevin: Satori
• Antony: BunnyCDN

Recorded on October 11th.

Description

• Who is Sam?
  • Twitter
• Svelte Starter Template

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: Meetings are not work.
• Sam: By 2030 we will reach 2.0
• Kevin: -

Picks

• Kevin
  • Coolify
  • CommitAI
• Sam
  • OpenProps
  • Adam Argyle
• Brittney:
  • Github CLI
  • Netlify CLI

Recorded on October 4th.

Description

• Who is Thomas?
  • Twitter
  • Website
• MeltUI
  • Radix Svelte
  • Svelte Sirens Stream
  • Builder from Scratch London Meetup
  • Search element
• TreeStyle Tabs / Panorama Tab Groups
• Practical Accessibility
• Markdoc
• Appwrite SvelteKit website re-launch
  • Website
  • Twitter

Picks

• Brittney: Invasion
• Kevin: The Continental
• Thomas: Berserk manga

Recorded on September 27st.

Description

• Who is Geoff?
  • Website
  • Twitter
• What are View Transitions?
  • MDN
  • Chrome for Developers
  • Jake Archibald's Article on the Chrome Blog
• How do they work in SvelteKit?
  • onNavigate
  • svelte-view-transition
  • Issue discussed
  • Geoff's Svelte Summit Spring 2023 Talk
• jh3ey's twitter
• 
  

Unpopular Opinions

• Kevin: Limitations are good!
• Brittney: -
• Geoff: ARIA attributes
  • NVDA

Picks

• Brittney: Flowbite GitHub
• Kevin: The Winter King 
• Geoff: The Wheel of Time S2 is so good!

Recorded on September 21st.

NotesSvelte Summit is happening on November 11th! Go submit a CFP!

• Who is Jason?
  • GitHub
  • Twitter / X
• Svelte Language Tools Web
  • svelte-vscode-web
• Wolfensvelte-3D
  • Play in the browser
• Nanothreads
• 
  

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: node_modules 🤬
• Antony: It's ok to like different things, but agree on a standard
• Jason: Please use CommonJS but don't work with me

Picks

• Kevin: Sea of Stars
• Brittney: Wool (Silo series)
• Antony: Batteries are great!
  • Technology Connections
• Jason: Lenovo ThinkPads, good deal!

We talk about the very very sad news that Ivan Hofer has passed away.

Unfortunately we had some pretty major recording issues this time and had to record over two days, sorry about that!

Recorded on September 14th.

Notes

• Svelte Summit is happening on November 11th! Go submit a CFP!
• Latent Space
• AI Engineer Conference
• What's new in Svelte and Kit?
  • View Transition support via onNavigate
  • Svelte 5 teases from the community.
    • Runes are now out
    • Preview
• Ivan Hofer passed away.
  • Creator of typesafe-i18n
  • If you can read German you can read an article here.
  • Svelte Summit Talk
  • Obituary Site
    • Add languages
• Showcases:
  • Sveltroid
  • Animotion

Unpopular Opinions

• Kevin: You don’t need a lot of equipment to start creating content
• Brittney: Jamstack is alive?
• Swyx: Bun is beating Deno
• Antony: WeWork 😭
  • Babies are hard!
  • EightSleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/se/

Picks

• Brittney: Silo
• Swyx: Foundation
• Antony: Eat Magnesium!

Recorded: June 15th

Description

In this episode we talk with Antonio and Paolo, winners of the Svelte Hackathon! They built a REPL that not only works for Svelte, but also for SvelteKit.

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Antonio
• Paolo
• SvelteLab
• Tech
  • WebContainer API
  • XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/
• svelte-add
• svelte-check
• Docs
• PocketBase

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: Native HTML tables are awful (brittney)
• Antonio: There are too many micro blogging sites
  • Mastodon
  • BlueSky
  • Nostr
• Antony: Notion
  • Desipad
  • Obsidian
  • Logseq
• Paolo:
  • We should not force “sv” into all the names
  • PWA:s are actually ok!

Picks

• Brittney: Diablo 4
• Kevin: Global Warming is great (wtf?!)
• Paolo: Bluey
• Antonio: Zelda
• Antony: Light Weight E-scooter
  • Megawheels S1

NOTE: RECORDED May the 4th be with you.

Description

This episode is special in the sense that it's not so much about Svelte in particular but for developers in general. If you haven't gone down the AI rabbit hole yet this episode is for you. Swyx gives us a crash course in what it is and how you can use it as a web developer. Enjoy!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Latent Space
• Image Generation:
  • Midjourney
• Weights and Biases
• https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero
• Whisper
• UL2
• JasperAI
• Midjourney
• levelsio - https://twitter.com/levelsio
• 11labs
• swyx github ainotes
• https://replit.com
• platform.openai.com
• Tools for Web Developers
  • Copilot
  • Codeium
  • Wolverine
• Codium: Test Generation
• ChatGPT Plugins
  • https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins
• Autonomy of Atonomy: https://www.latent.space/p/agents
• AutoGPT
• BabyGPT
• Anthropic
• Elicit

Picks

• Kevin:
  • Opus Pro
  • Lindy.ai
  • Kapwing
• Swyx:
  • Menu Bar App for ChatGPT “ChatGPT Mac”
  • The Batch
• Brittney:
  • Night Agent

NOTE: RECORDED April 28th.

Description

We talk about the upcoming Svelte Summit conference and what we can expect from it! Talks, hackathon winners and other things!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Svelte Summit Talks
• Safari Update
• Web Containers Update
• Polypane
• Responsely
• typesafe-i18n
• Eric Brehault Episode
• Dev Vlog (May 2023)
• XDCD Comic
• This Week in Svelte
  • Skip Links

Unpopular Opinions

• Antony: The GitHub SDK is not good
• Brittney: Bluesky is not the next Twitter or the better Twitter, it will push more poeple to Mastodon
• Shawn: Edge Browser
  • Arc Browser
  • Kevs Tip: Orion Browser

Picks

• Brittney: The Diplomat
• Kev: PartyKit
• Shawn: Marvel Snap
• Antony: Succession

NOTE: RECORDED April 19th.

Description

Forms in SvelteKit are already top notch. But Superforms make them even better. We talk to Andreas Söderlund, the creator of the library. Enjoy!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Haxe: https://haxe.org
• Form Actions: https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/form-actions
• sveltekit-superforms: https://github.com/ciscoheat/sveltekit-superforms
  • Documentation: https://superforms.vercel.app
  • Zod: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod
  • Timers: https://superforms.vercel.app/concepts/timers
  • Response Time Discussion: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/
  • Multiple Forms: https://superforms.vercel.app/concepts/multiple-forms

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: Don’t use libraries that don’t have first class support for esm or Vite.
• Antony: AI is not going to steal our jobs
• Andreas: NPM and package managers should be more restrictive with what they allow on their registries.

Picks

• Kev: Sauna
• Antony: These USB-C Cable - https://amzn.to/3ophxql
• Andreas: DCI - https://blog.encodeart.dev/dci-tutorial-for-typescript-part-1

NOTE: RECORDED April 13th.

Description

This week we sit down with Wasita and Eshin at the Cosanlab at Darthmouth to talk about how they use Svelte in their research as well as the intersection between research and web development and the possibilities that it opens up.

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Guests:
  • Wasita:
    • Twitter
    • Website
  • Eshin:
    • Twitter
    • Website
• Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
• https://github.com/wasita/svelte-vid-sync-chat-app -> The "Netflix party" experiment we mentioned, written with Svelte, socket.io, firebase 
• https://github.com/cosanlab/trust-game -> Interactive 2-player trust game experiment written in Svelte and client-synchronization powered by Firebase
• https://github.com/ejolly/create-svelte-experiment -> A starter Svelte SPA template for experiments powered by Firebase
• https://maxfarrens.github.io/continuous-rater-book/Intro.html -> An interface for collecting continuous time-series emotion ratings from people watching videos
• https://github.com/ejolly/thought_tagger -> An interface for segmenting audio-files of people's memories. Built on top of the BBC's peaks.js.
• https://eshinjolly.com/svelteturk/#/ -> The "missing GUI" for Amazon's Mechanical Turk labor market. An electron desktop app that helps manage data collection and administration.

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: Click bait twitter
• Antony: Helium

Picks

• Kev: Cold Plunges
• Antony: Same
• Eshin: Raised by Wolves
• Wasita: Beef
• Brittney: Shadow and Bone (TV Show)

NOTE: RECORDED March 28th.

Description

Alex Patterson joins us to chat about... you guessed it! Svelte at AppWrite. And Svelte in general. We chat a bit of AI as well, ChatGPT, Google Bard. All that fun new stuff!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Who is Alex?
  • Twitter
  • Website
  • How did you get into programming?
    • Dreamweaver
    • ABAP in SAP
  • Svelte
    • Pink
    • AppWrite Console
  • Codingcat.dev
  • AppWrite
• Thoughts on Svelte
  • Reactive statements
• ChatGPT
  • Google Bard
• BlackCatUI
• {…$$restProps}
• Sveld
• JSDoc

Unpopular Opinions

• Alex: TailwindCSS is awesome!
• Antony: DX is king - if your DX sucks you slowly and reluctantly build things and don’t experiment due to effort
  • Imba
  • Scrimba

Picks

• Kev: YouTube Shorts on Svelte Society
• Alex: https://www.blackcatui.com/
  • Heated Deskpad
• Antony: packageManager - volta - issue with global packages node version - only-allow-pnpm (doesn’t work)
  • Volta
  • packageManager - https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v16.x/docs/api/packages.html#packagemanager
  • only-allow-pnpm - https://pnpm.io/only-allow-pnpm

Where can folks find you on the interwebs?

@codercatdev

appwrite discord server

Coding Cat Dev find all the podcasts

NOTE: RECORDED March 22nd.

Description

Eric from Nuclia joins us to talk about Svelte... and the history of the web! If you're a new web developer this one is a treasure trove of knowledge. We also talk about Nuclia and what they're doing. A lot of fun!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Community
  • Dev Vlog Streams
  • TikTok
  • Svelte Summit - CFP unfortunately is closed :( 
• Who is Eric? What’s his background?
  • Twitter: @ebrehault on Twitter 
  • Mastodon: @ebrehault@mastodon.tetaneutral.net
  • Github: github.com/ebrehault
  • Mosaic Browser
  • Framesets
  • JSONP
  • AJAX
  • JQuery
  • Plone CMS
  • React
• What is Nuclia? Twitter
• RxJS
• Svelte
• Rich Harris - Rethinking Reactivity
• Rich Harris - Transitional Web Apps
• Svelte Hackathon Library https://github.com/ebrehault/talk2svelte
  • Web Speech API
• Erics PloneCMS Library: https://github.com/ebrehault/abfab

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: Short content is worthless
• Eric: Online coding is cool

Picks

• Kevin: Rubberducking
• Brittney: State of Svelte: https://twitter.com/ladyleet/status/1636754269041831949?s=20
• Eric: Halt and catch fire https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543312/

NOTE: RECORDED March 15th.

Description

Puru Vijay joins us. You probably know him from his work on macOS web that made the rounds a while back. He's got a bunch of cool Svelte projects that you'll enjoy hearing more about in this one!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• macos Web
• Svelte Summit talk - How to migrate React libraries to Svelte
• Confetti
• Neodrag
• Neosvelte (Upcoming, planned), example
• The virtual dom is not pure overhead
  • https://twitter.com/manucorporat/status/1635309067634876416
  • https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
• Dev Vlog with Rich
• This week in Svelte
• Zero-effort type safety

Unpopular Opinions

• Cyclists who cycle in the road when good quality cycle lanes are available, are dickheads. (is this unpopular??)
• Storybook is still not there…for me (slots, argTypes)
• Puru: More like an unpopular sinful thought: Using React components in Svelte

Picks

• Kevin:
  • Chained Echoes: https://www.chainedechoes.com
  • Liason 
  • Shrinking
• Puru: Attack on Titan season 4 part 3 episode 1 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560140/
• Brittney: Don’t watch Willow

NOTE: RECORDED March 1st.

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Show Notes

• i18n
• Dynamic basepath
• Svelte 4.0 Milestones
• Geoff Rich - website, twitter
• Beyonk is Hiring
  • AuroraJS
• Job openings
  • Spiegel - German Newspaper Visual Svelte
  • UBS - message @ranzucker - Jr and Sr Svelte dev
  • Railbird Software Engineer
• Threlte has scrolly telling capabilities now
• Svelte Hackathon

Unpopular Opinions

• Antony: Cloud abstractions are good actually
• Languages

Picks

• Antony: LED Strips on a Pram
• Brittney: Hogwarts Legacy

NOTE: RECORDED February 7th.

Description

We sit down to talk with Scott Tolinski about the re-build of LevelUp Tutorials! Was it 6 months since the re-build? We don't know, but it was a while ago! 😅

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• React to Svelte YT video
  • From React to Svelte
  • Basic React To Svelte Conversion - Weekly Svelte - YouTube
• Mitosis
• Kit Snapshots
• Level Up Tutorials - Learn modern web development
• Animation With Svelte (with Scott Tolinski) — Learn With Jason - YouTube
• greensock
• Locals - hooks
• auto form meteor
• Bookit
• Travis Neilson
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Unpopular Opinions

• Scott: JSX is a templating language, React is not JUST JavaScript
• Brittney: OSS Maintainers should

Picks

• Kev: Megaman X Corrupted - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pk-DsDpiBo
  • Snes Drunk
• Scott: Niimbot - https://amzn.to/40Dc6CH
• Brittney: This Week in Svelte

NOTE: RECORDED JANUARY 25th.

Description

Announcing the Svelte Hackathon! Join in and win prizes! 

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Sirens stream - The story behind the (unofficial) Svelte newsletter
• What’s new in Svelte Feburary
  • https://old.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/10iud65/svelte_40_feature_speculation_suggestions/
• Native like SvelteKit: https://twitter.com/stellanhaglund/status/1613909926849699843?s=46&t=EOdi-gI9HatKWl7CcxILig

Picks

• Antony: CRUMB - https://crumbsim.com
• Kevin: The Last of Us: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3581920/
• Brittney: Arc Browser

Description

We sit down with Bert Bengtson, known for his wacky and very awesome Svelte Summit talks. Surely you must remember the desk chair talk? Or the most recent one where he runs around a room full of Svelte developers? Tune in for an awesome episode!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Ashley Furniture
• How did you end up using Svelte?
  • Why Modals are Hard https://gist.github.com/ryanflorence/fd7e987c832cc4efaa56
  • Antony’s example at Beyonk (click Send enquiry)
  • Dialog element https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dialog
  • https://open-ui.org/ - Dialog | Open UI (open-ui.org)
  • https://www.a11yproject.com/checklist/
  • Bookit https://bookit.leveluptutorials.com/
  • Histoire: https://histoire.dev/
  • Storybook https://storybook.js.org/
• Svelte Summit Talks
  • The Highs and Lows of Migrating a Massive Ecommerce Website To Svelte and SvelteKit
  • When Keeping it Svelte Goes Wrong. An Analysis of Some of the Worst Svelte I Have Ever Coded
• SvelteKit - vitest
  • https://vitest.dev/
  • https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/pull/5708
  • https://jestjs.io/
  • https://pnpm.io/
• That conf: https://that.us/
• Vue post on r/Javascript and r/Vue - discussing Vue 2 to Vue 3 transition
  • https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/2022-year-in-review.html
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/102brhc/vuejs_2022_year_in_review_and_what_to_expect_in/

Unpopular Opinions

• Bert: Styling using semantic aria is the goat!
• Brittney: Remix will NOT go all in on Web Components
  • Austin crim: remix talk - Svemix? Re-svmix? Re-svelte?: Bringing Svelte to Remix Router: https://youtu.be/A8jkJTWacow?t=11096
    • remix-routers/packages/svelte at main · brophdawg11/remix-routers · GitHub
  • https://github.com/pixelmund/svemix
• Antony: Twitter/Reddit Bookmarks are the worst implemented feature ever - use Pocket

Picks

• Kev: Nostr and Svelte French Toast
  • https://svelte-french-toast.com/
  • Nostr Protocol - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
    • Damus - https://github.com/damus-io/damus
• Bert: Hypno Space Outlaw
• Swyx: Fave New Podcasts of 2022
• Brittney: ui.dev | JavaScript, but fun. Bytes Newsletter
  • Danger Crew
• Antony: I’m a Computer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH1ekuvSYzE

Description

It’s the holiday season - yet there is a lot going on in the Svelte world. We discuss all the recent news, AI, Skeleton UI and the updates to the Svelte Sirens page. Listen to find out how Svelte is used in Submarines, what the results of the Stack Overflow survey 2022 are and why DevRel sucks.

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Description
We have a chat with Ron Au, the creator of the infamous floating head talk from 2019! He tells us about his journey from journalism into web development and how he ended up at Hugging Face. Enjoy!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Notes

• Swyx's Company Conf
  • Bang Bang Con
  • Have you tried rubbing a database on it?
• Who is Ron?
  • Twitter
  • Website
  • Huggingface
• People Mentioned
  • Jhey Tompkins
  • Josh Comeau
  • Charlie Gerard
• This Pokemon Does not Exist
• Ron's Svelte Summit Talks
  • Web á la mode (floating head!)
  • Zwoosh YEAHHHH Shabam! Whimsy in motion!
  • Scrollytell me why: Ain't nothing but a piece of cake
• Imba & Scrimba
• 
  

Unpopular Opinions

• Ron: Svelte is BAD - way too happy when using it. Meeting a ton of interesting people. UGH! THE WORST!
• Swyx: English has won, Duolingo should not exist

Picks

• Brittney
  • Sirens Stream on Skeleton
  • Springhealth
• Swyx
  • PV510+ Lavalier Mic
  • Don't Buy a Yeti
• Ron
  • Warhammer 40000: Darktide
  • Squeeze Bottle Peanut Butter 🤯
• Kev: Hollow Knight

Description
In this episode we talk with the creator of Threlte, Grischa Erbe. Enjoy!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Notes

• Threlte
• Arcade Machine
• Phsyics Engine Rapier
• Get Started with Threlte
• Jamstack Survey
• Evan You's Comments

Picks

• Brittney: Unpack the Stack
• Swyx: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Mastodon Links

• Brittney - https://front-end.social/@brittneypostma/
• Swyx - https://sigmoid.social/@swyx

Description
In this episode we FINALLY manage to catche the Pngwn 🐧. He works at Huggingface and created MDSveX. Enjoy!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Notes

• Pngwn
  • Bristech Talk
  • Svelte Summit Fall 2022 Talk
  • Svelte In Motion
• State of JavaScript 2022 - Don't forget to mention Svelte Radio! 😚
• Huggingface
  • Spaces
• Gradio
• Stable Diffusion Web UI
• Craiyon
• Weird Dall-E Generations Twitter Account
• SvelteKit 8 issues left!?
  • Milestone Page on GitHub
• Interested in working at Huggingface? They're hiring!

Unpopular Opinions

• Swyx: Svelte will stay on top of React
• Antony: Mastodon is not the answer to the supposed demise of twitter 😭
• Swyx: Every developer needs to be AI literate - Software 3.0

Picks

• Brittney: The Peripheral
• Antony: Herr Gunnar Papphammar
• Pngw: Restaurant in Amsterdam Terrazen (video)
• Swyx: RunwayML - Demo

Mastodon Links

• Brittney - https://front-end.social/@brittneypostma/
• Swyx - https://sigmoid.social/@swyx
• Antony - https://cabbage.lol/@antony
• Pngwn - @evilpingwin@beta.mstdn.cf

Description
We talk Threlte and AI... a lot of AI! And Svelte of course.

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Notes

• Threlte Discussion
  • Website
  • Svelte Sirens stream
  • Reddit Thread
  • Remotion
  • Remotion but in Svelte
• SvelteCMS
• Sveltosis
• What's new in Svelte: November
  • Optional Params
  • use:enhance - new update function
• AppWrite Console is written in Svelte

Unpopular Opinions

• Swyx: All search is AI, all If statements are AI

Picks

• Brittney: 
  • DevRel Social Programming Stream
  • Repo
  • Nov 30th Stream on Form Actions
• Swyx: Hey Github and Codeium Beta
• Kevin: Stacklands

Description
We're finally getting back into it again. This week Brittney and Kev catch up on the latest since Svelte Summit. Enjoy!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Notes

• Election Graphs using Svelte and SvelteKit
  • Reuters
  • Bloomberg
  • Der Spiegel
  • Axios Visuals
• Creative Coding (around 18 minutes it gets trippy!)by Alexander Esselink
• Jammies - Ecosystem Innovation Award
• Steven Sanderson, creator of Knockout.js shows us SvelteKit during his NDC talk
• SvelteKit Milestone 97%!

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: Twitter is going to die, Mastodon is where it is at
• Kev: Twitter is NOT going to die

Picks

• Kev: Kagi Search
• Brittney: Jamstack Conf

Sponsor
This week's episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late!

Description
Some new routing changes have made its way to SvelteKit. Controversial? A bit. We sit down with Rich Harris to talk about the why the how of it all.

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Notes

• The Discussion that started it all
  • Next.js Layout RFC
• Migration Guide
• 
  

Unpopular Opinions

• Kev: Safari is the best browser 😎
• Swyx: All apps can make more use of URL State management
  • Form Issue
• Brittney: Firefox is the best browser
• Rich: Firefox is not the best browser

Picks

• Rich Harris:
• Swyx: 
• Brittney: Sirens Luncheon at Svelte Summit & Svelte Sirens August Talk with Josefine Schaefer from Storyblok
• Rich: Climbing / Bouldering / Toproping

Sponsor
This week's episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late! 

Description
This week we talk about a number changes that have been made to SvelteKit lately. (No! Not the big routing changes, those will be talked about next episode!)

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Notes

• Bubble Popping Game
• Svelte Documentary for those who missed it
• Rich Harris Commit Messages
  • https://twitter.com/The_Only_Tails/status/1549854642032492549
  • https://twitter.com/joyofcodedev/status/1549861807422164992
• SvelteKit Changes
  • Consistent Handling of Environment Variables
  • Uppercase HTTP Methods
  • Enforce vite.config.js requirment
• Dummdidumm is hired by Vercel to work on Svelte
• Beginner SvelteKit by Vercel
• Carbon Components by IBM
• fluent-svelte by Tropix126
• Community and Meetups
  • London Social and more photos here
  • Vienna
  • New York
  • Stockholm Monthly Svelte Lunch
• Storyblok with SvelteKit Josefine Schaefer - https://sveltesirens.dev/upcoming August 17, 1:30 EDT
• Last month - Testing in Svelte with Jess
• Highlights and libraries
  • Phoenix + Svelte https://nathancahill.com/phoenix-svelte
  • Svelte + SVG Bohr Atoms demo https://twitter.com/jrib_/status/1551605545563353088?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • React Hooks in Svelte - josh nuss https://twitter.com/danawoodman/status/1551582422780854272?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • Svelte + Remix demo https://twitter.com/crim_codes/status/1542684471195045889?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • Remix-routers https://github.com/brophdawg11/remix-routers
  • Form in Svelte - https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/3533#issuecomment-1197791727
  • Threejs + Svelte https://twitter.com/a_warnes/status/1543412625157021698?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • Bruno Simon: https://bruno-simon.com
  • Svelte Cascading Context store https://twitter.com/hamiltonulmer/status/1541548191010590720?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • Stolinski - Bookit https://twitter.com/stolinski/status/1551044830456729600?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • vitebook https://vitebook.dev/introduction/what-is-vitebook.html
  • Svelte command palette https://twitter.com/rohitpotato/status/1546388264915173378?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow

Unpopular Opinions

• Kev: SQLite is enough for most things! Use PocketBase ❤️: https://pocketbase.io
• swyx: Client-Server is not “Full Stack” anymore
• Brittney: Twitter spaces is the worst platform that is actually popular

Picks

• Kev: Orion Browser
• swyx: Really Bad Chess
• Brittney: Learn Build Teach - Wins of the Week