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Real-World Svelte

By : Tan Li Hau
4.3 (4)
Book Image

Real-World Svelte

4.3 (4)
By: Tan Li Hau

Overview of this book

Svelte has quickly become a popular choice among developers seeking to build fast, responsive, and efficient web applications that are high-performing, scalable, and visually stunning. This book goes beyond the basics to help you thoroughly explore the core concepts that make Svelte stand out among other frameworks. You’ll begin by gaining a clear understanding of lifecycle functions, reusable hooks, and various styling options such as Tailwind CSS and CSS variables. Next, you’ll find out how to effectively manage the state, props, and bindings and explore component patterns for better organization. You’ll also discover how to create patterns using actions, demonstrate custom events, integrate vanilla JS UI libraries, and progressively enhance UI elements. As you advance, you’ll delve into state management with context and stores, implement custom stores, handle complex data, and manage states effectively, along with creating renderless components for specialized functionalities and learning animations with tweened and spring stores. The concluding chapters will help you focus on enhancing UI elements with transitions while covering accessibility considerations. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped to unlock Svelte's full potential, build exceptional web applications, and deliver performant, responsive, and inclusive user experiences.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Writing Svelte Components
6
Part 2: Actions
10
Part 3: Context and Stores
16
Part 4: Transitions

Creating an undo/redo store

Typically, we change a store’s value using the set method. However, the next custom Svelte store we’ll explore provides additional custom methods to update its store value. The next custom Svelte store that we are going to look at is an undo/redo store. It is similar to a writable store where you can subscribe to and set a new store value. But an undo/redo store also comes with two more methods, undo and redo, which revert the store value backward or forward, based on the history of the store value.

Here’s a snippet of how you would use an undo/redo store:

<script>
  let value = createUndoRedoStore();
  $value = 123;
  $value = 456;
  $value = 789;
  value.undo(); // $value now goes back to 456
  value.undo(); // $value now goes back to 123
  value.redo(); // $value now turns to 456
</script>
Value: {$value}

In the provided code snippet, the createUndoRedoStore...