The Svelte ecosystem is growing faster than ever, and with it comes a wave of amazing tools that can supercharge your development workflow. What makes these tools special is how they align with Svelte's core philosophy: simplicity, efficiency, and developer experience. Like Svelte itself, each tool in this list delivers powerful functionality while maintaining a clean, focused approach.
Here's a curated list of open-source gems that deserve a spot in your toolbox.
1. Warp
Warp is a terminal built for the 21st century. It features collaborative workflows, modern design, and is blazing fast. Its interface offers an intuitive experience, including features like real-time for pair programming, syntax highlighting, and auto-completion. Warp’s philosophy is centered around efficiency and performance, which is perfect for Svelte developers who like to move fast and stay productive.
2. Skeleton
Skeleton is more than just another UI library - it's a complete design system for Svelte that emphasizes developer experience and performance:
- Fully-featured component library
- Tailwind CSS integration
- Dark mode out of the box
- Built-in themes and customization
3. Manifest
Manifest is an incredibly easy-to-use backend, ideal for being integrated into Svelte projects. Just with a YAML file, you create an entire backend, including a REST API, a database, an SDK, and even an admin panel for non-technical administrators. Manifest lets you focus on your front-end without being slowed down by complex and time-consuming backend tasks. It's perfect for developers who want to ship faster. Here’s an article that describes how a developer builds a complete application using Svelte and Manifest.
4. Superforms
Superforms is a form library specifically designed for SvelteKit. It simplifies form management by handling state and real-time validation, making form handling easier in your Svelte applications. Superforms provides a flexible API that integrates seamlessly with SvelteKit routes.
5. Svelte Headless UI
Svelte Headless UI is a library of unstyled, accessible UI components, inspired by Tailwind's Headless UI. It gives you all the interactivity without enforcing styles, allowing you to design the components exactly the way you want. With Svelte’s reactivity and this library's flexibility, building complex UI interactions has never been easier.
6. Layer Cake
Layer Cake is a graphics framework for Svelte developers who want to create charts like those we create with D3.js. Layer Cake is a go-to toolkit for creating scalable, responsive visualizations, whether you're working with maps, bar charts, plots, radars, or other types of charts.
7. Hoppscotch
Hoppscotch is an open-source API development tool, similar to Postman, but lighter and designed for quick testing and collaboration. While mainly for backend developers, it’s perfect for Svelte front-end devs who need to quickly test APIs, validate responses, and debug integrations—essential for API-driven apps.
8. Svelte Heros
Svelte Heros is a collection of free, open-source SVG icons built specifically for Svelte. It’s based on Heroicons and is incredibly easy to integrate into your Svelte projects. With over 200 icons, Svelte Heros offers easy access to a wide range of icons while keeping your app lightweight and performant.
9. Carta
Carta is an efficient and highly adaptable Markdown editor and viewer built for Svelte. It seamlessly integrates with SvelteKit and offers full support for Server Side Rendering (SSR), ensuring flexibility and speed. It comes with a set of essential plugins.
10. Elder.js
Elder.js is a static site generator focused on SEO for Svelte apps. It offers detailed control over SEO, routing, and data fetching. Optimized for performance, it's ideal for large-scale, fast-loading, SEO-friendly sites.
This collection of tools represents just a glimpse into the vibrant Svelte ecosystem. What sets them apart is their adherence to what makes Svelte itself so powerful - the perfect balance of simplicity and capability. Each tool follows this philosophy, providing robust solutions without unnecessary complexity, helping you build better applications with less cognitive overhead.
Keep in mind that the Svelte community is constantly innovating - new tools emerge regularly, and existing ones evolve. If you've discovered other gems that share this commitment to elegant, efficient development, feel free to share them in the comments below!
Happy coding! 🚀
Top comments (5)
Cool, there's quite a few in this list that I'm excited to check out, starting with Warp.
First time seeing Manifest, looks interesting
Not bad
Thanks for having Carta in this list. I'm glad people find it useful ❤️
Great selection of tools, now how to combine them to make something great...