Rich Harris & the rest of the Svelte team have previously mentioned that they use TypeScript with JSDoc instead of .ts files. That gives TypeScript’s safety benefits during development and on CI, without an additional build step.
There are a few nuances to this, Pascal Schilp did a great job reviewing the background and benefits behind this decision.
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As I roam deeper into Svelte territory, I came across this talk from 2019 by Rich Harris, creator of Svelte.
Rich explains how he arrived at Svelte’s reactivity from first principles, swimming against the virtual-DOM stream other frameworks follow.
Despite being from 2019, it’s still relevant. Even if you’re not into Svelte, it’s worth watching as a great standalone talk.
For the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with Svelte & SvelteKit. Svelte peaked my interest because it’s a tool molded by the web. A lot of Svelte APIs piggyback on existing web affordances like plain HTML and CSS variables.
Shorthex is a small app to transform 6-digit hex color codes to 3-digit codes. Here’s a quick overview of the features of Svelte I enjoyed using.