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Real-World Svelte

By : Tan Li Hau
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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

Using state management libraries with Svelte

If you google State management library for frontend development, at the time of writing, you will get list after list of libraries, such as Redux, XState, MobX, Valtio, Zustand, and many more.

These libraries have their own take on how states should be managed, each with different design considerations and design constraints. For the longevity of the content of this book, we are not going to compare and analyze each of them since these libraries will change and evolve over time and potentially be replaced by newer alternatives.

It is worth noting that some of the state management libraries are written for a specific web framework. For example, at the time of writing, the Jōtai library (https://jotai.org/) is written specifically for React, which means you can only use Jōtai if you write your web application in React.

On the other hand, there are framework-agnostic state management libraries. An example is XState (https...