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SvelteKit Up and Running

By : Dylan Hildenbrand
Book Image

SvelteKit Up and Running

By: Dylan Hildenbrand

Overview of this book

The JavaScript ecosystem has grown vast, complex, and daunting for newcomers. Fortunately, SvelteKit has emerged, simplifying the process of building JavaScript-based web applications. This book aims to demystify SvelteKit, making it as approachable as it makes web app development. With SvelteKit Up and Running you’ll be introduced to the philosophy and technologies underlying SvelteKit. First, you’ll follow a standard educational programming approach, progressing to a 'Hello World' application. Next, you’ll explore the fundamental routing techniques, data loading management, and user submission, all through real-world scenarios commonly encountered in day-to-day development, before discovering various adapters employed by SvelteKit to seamlessly integrate with diverse environments. You’ll also delve into advanced concepts like dynamic route management, error handling, and leveraging SvelteKit to optimize SEO and accessibility. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered SvelteKit and will be well-equipped to navigate the complexities of web app development.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Getting Started with SvelteKit
5
Part 2 – Core Concepts
10
Part 3 – Supplemental Concepts

Summary

Having covered how the SvelteKit build process works, we then observed how we can preview our builds locally. We also looked at how page options can affect our builds. We took what we learned about the build process and saw how we can tailor our application to various platforms by selecting the right adapter. The application we’ve built so far is best suited to Node.js environments but we’ve also seen how simple it is to deploy to Cloudflare Pages and platforms such as Netlify or Vercel. By using the correct adapter and development strategies, we can even turn our application into a static website. Now that you’ve seen how to prepare your application for different production environments, you can go forth and release your SvelteKit applications into the wild.

In the next chapter, we’ll learn how we can manipulate requests across our entire application through the use of hooks. We’ll also address how we can utilize these hooks to assist...