In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with the author of Svelte, Rich Harris, about what influenced the creation of Svelte, his thoughts on web components, the virtual DOM, why companies are switching to Svelte, and what’s next for Svelte.

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Show Notes

• 00:33 Welcome
• 02:10 Who is Rich Harris?
• Rich Harris on Twitter
• 02:55 What is Svelte?
• Svelte
• Vercel
• Svelte Kit
• 06:52 What influenced the template language for Svelte?
• 10:03 What do you use the const tag for?
• 10:49 Sponsor: Gatsby
• 12:04 What about immutability issues?
• 17:49 What about web components?
• 21:51 Why does Svelte not need the virtual DOM?
• 27:34 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response
• 28:45 What is your favorite part of working in Svelte?
• 32:31 Why are companies switching to Svelte?
• 34:35 What is the SvelteKit timeline?
• 38:52 What’s the next version of Svelte include?
• Motion
• 41:36 Any thoughts on new backend JavaScript environments?
• Web Interoperability
• 45:39 Supperclub Questions
• 52:40 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Rich: Mullvad VPN

Shameless Plugs

• Svelte Origins

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