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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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