In this episode of Svelte Radio, Ken Kunz joins the hosts to discuss his journey with Svelte, from discovering it

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

Summary

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

Summary

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

Summary
We're putting the band back together. Svelte Radio is officially back. This first episode is a bit of catch-up. Not a ton of Svelte chatter. Look forward to many fun and interesting episodes.

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 

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: [email protected]
• 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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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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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

Summary:
In this episode we sit down with Scott Tolinski — cohost of Syntax.fm — to talk about Svelte 5 and local first development.

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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

Summary:
In this episode we sit down with Julian Burgess to talk about what he does at Bloomberg, how he uses Svelte and some thoughts about Svelte 5 and other exciting tech.

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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

Summary:
In this episode we sit down with Matias (patakdev) and Pete (pngwn) to talk about how Vite evolved into a framework agnostic build tool and what it has planned for the future.

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