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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

SvelteKit Module Summaries

In previous chapters, we’ve used several different modules but only provided short explanations. While the analysis in this section will also be brief, it should provide a broad enough insight that prospective SvelteKit developers feel familiar with the workings of available modules. We have encountered a few listed here but there are some that we are yet to cover. For more in-depth explanations, see the resources at the end of this chapter.

$app/environment

To begin our analysis of modules, let’s start with one that we have used relatively recently. In Chapter 9, while attempting to throw an error in the client, we used the $app/environment module and imported browser. As we’ve come to expect with SvelteKit naming conventions, all of the bindings exported from this module pertain to the application environment. This makes it trivial to identify the purpose of each of the bindings by their names. For instance, we saw that browser...