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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

When are the transitions played?

The transitions in Svelte are played when elements are added or removed from the DOM.

in: transitions are executed when an element is added to the DOM. This usually occurs when a component is initialized or when a condition that controls the element’s rendering becomes true.

For example, in an {#if} block, when the if condition turns from falsy to truthy, the elements inside the {#if} block are added to the DOM. All the in: transitions applied to these elements will be played simultaneously as soon as the elements are inserted into the DOM:

{#if condition}
  <div in:fade>some content</div>
  <div transition:blur>more content</div>
{/if}

In the preceding code snippet, as condition turns to true, both <div> elements will be inserted into the DOM. As soon as both <div> elements are inserted, both the fade and blur transitions will start playing simultaneously. Whether both the fade...