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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

Managing states with Svelte stores

When building an interactive user interface, the first thing we consider is determining the necessary states to represent the various components and interactions.

For example, in the following snippet, I have a login form that has a few components, including two inputs, one checkbox, and one button:

<Input name="username" />
<Input name="password" />
<Checkbox label="Show Password" />
<Button>Submit</Button>

Each of the Svelte components has multiple states, as outlined here:

  • The <Input /> component has an input value state and an error state set during validation
  • The <Checkbox /> component has a checked/unchecked state, checked to reveal the password in the input
  • The password <Input /> component has an additional state to reveal/hide the password
  • The <Button /> component has an enabled/disabled state, disabled when the form is incomplete...