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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

In the chapters leading up to this, we covered core routing concepts. In this chapter, we looked at the more advanced techniques available in SvelteKit. These techniques can help us further customize our application and address edge cases. When it comes to routing, we now have an understanding of how we can create optional parameters with default values. We’ve also seen how rest parameters can be used to create a shareable URL of unknown lengths. Matching was shown to be useful for ensuring our application is receiving parameters of the expected types. We also saw how SvelteKit prioritizes certain routing rules over others, which is helpful for understanding the order of execution when a URL matches multiple routes. After covering how to encode special characters in routes, we looked at how we can create layout groups and even break out of the layout hierarchies while keeping application logic intact. If you’ve finished this chapter and feel comfortable with everything...