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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

Exploring Custom Transitions

In this chapter, we will delve into the world of custom transitions in Svelte. So far, we have explored Svelte’s built-in transitions and how they can be used to create engaging and dynamic user interfaces. However, there may be situations where the built-in transitions don’t quite meet your requirements and you want to create something more unique. This is where custom transitions come into play.

Custom transitions allow you to take full control over the animations and effects that you want to achieve in your Svelte application. This chapter will guide you through the process of creating your own custom transitions, whether they are CSS- or JavaScript-based. We will explore the transition contract, which serves as the foundation for creating custom transitions, and provide practical examples to help you get started.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a solid understanding of how to create custom transitions in Svelte, and you...