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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

Examples – creating an animated image preview

In this example, we’ll create an image preview feature that allows users to view a larger, more detailed version of a thumbnail image when they click on it, enhancing the user’s visual experience and allowing them to inspect images more closely.

While building this feature, you’ll see how we can utilize the spring store to create a more fluid and natural user experience, making the transitions between images and their larger previews feel smooth and engaging.

To begin, let’s create a list of images that will be displayed on our page:

<script>
  const images = [
    "path/to/image1.jpg",
    "path/to/image2.jpg",
    // ...more image paths
  ];
  const imgElements = [];
</script>
<div class="image-container">
  {#each images as image, index}
 ...