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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

Adding transitions to elements

Svelte provides a simple and powerful way to add transitions to your application elements. The framework offers built-in transition functions that can be easily applied to elements, allowing for smooth animations and seamless user experiences. You can also define your own custom transitions, which we will learn about in the next chapter.

Transitions in Svelte are applied to elements when the elements are mounted or unmounted from the DOM. This ensures that elements appear and disappear gracefully, rather than just abruptly popping in and out of view.

To add a transition to an element in Svelte, you can use the transition: directive with the desired transition function. Here’s an example of adding a transition to an element:

<script>
  import { fade } from 'svelte/transition';
</script>
<div transition:fade>some text here</div>

In the preceding code snippet, we imported fade from svelte/transition...