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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

Creating Dynamic Pages

In previous chapters, we’ve covered the process of creating a new page. To refresh your memory, it is as simple as creating a new directory inside src/routes/ with the desired route name. Inside that directory, we create +page.svelte, which is simply a Svelte component that is then rendered as the page shown in the browser. An embarrassingly simple About page might look like this:

src/routes/about/+page.svelte

<div class='wrapper'>
  <h1>About</h1>
  <p>
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
  </p>
</div>

This example illustrates just how simple adding a new page is. In it, we see a div, an h1 title tag, and a paragraph p tag with the lorem ipsum sample text. Of course, in a real-world scenario, it would have much more content as well as some styles. This example exists only to show how simple it is to add a new, static page.

But what if you needed to...