What is Svelte?
According to the official website;
"Svelte is a radical new approach to building user interfaces. Whereas traditional frameworks like React and Vue do the bulk of their work in the browser, Svelte shifts that work into a compile step that happens when you build your app."
In simple terms, Svelte is a tool for building JavaScript-based web applications like React, Angular or Vue.
Technically, Svelte acts as a compiler.
Enough of the bells and whistle, there are many articles about how good and powerful Svelte really is, let's get right into our first project.
Our first Svelte Project.
TLDR: Use the online REPL to learn without installing anything locally.
Requirements
- Install
- Node
- Git
- Basics of:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Navigating the Command Line
// download the official svelte template
npx degit sveltejs/template project-name
// enter into project
cd project-name
// install dependencies to run svelte
npm install
// run the development server
npm run dev
Open browser and type localhost:5000, you should see something like this.
Conclusion
Thanks for reading. Next up will be about the file structure in Svelte.
Top comments (2)
A 'radical new approach' that the excellent riot.js was doing before Svelte existed! :P
:) at least they both did what they promised. :P