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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

What is web accessibility?

Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, or environments to be usable by as many people as possible, regardless of any physical, sensory, or cognitive disabilities they may have.

It is vital to ensure that websites are accessible to all users. There are many disabilities that can potentially affect a user’s experience on a website. Ensuring a website’s accessibility allows everyone, regardless of their abilities, to have equal access to the same services and information that are available to everyone.

One of the many disabilities that can hinder a website’s user experience is a vestibular disorder. In this chapter, we will specifically focus on enhancing accessibility for individuals with vestibular disorders.

Vestibular disorders are conditions that affect the inner ear and brain, and they can cause difficulties with balance, spatial orientation, and movement perception. Imagine that your body’s natural...