In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about SvelteKit — what it is and why you might want to use it.

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Show Notes

03:28 - What is it?

• Total platform for building Svelte apps
• Built in Vite.js
  • Includes all of the Vite goodness but it hides behind the scenes for the most part
• Host anywhere

05:16 - Is it CSR, SSR, SSG, WTF?!

• All of the above. Uses adapters to control the output:

kit: { // hydrate the element in src/app.html target: '#svelte', adapter: adapter() }

09:45 - What you get out of the box

• File-based routing
• API routes
• Layouts and layout resets
• Fancy file titles [slug] __layout
• Code splitting & preloading
• PostCSS
• TypeScript support

17:03 - Neat small things

• Glob import
• https://github.com/svelte-add/svelte-add

Links

• SvelteKit
• Next.js
• Gatsby.js
• Sapper
• tailwindcss
• @chriscoyier

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