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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

Implementing Styling and Theming

Without styling, an h1 element within a component will look the same as another h1 element from another component. Svelte allows you to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), a language used for styling and formatting web content, to style your elements, giving them a different look and feel.

In this chapter, we will start by talking about different ways to style a Svelte component. We will then see some examples, including integrating a popular CSS framework, Tailwind CSS, into Svelte.

Following that, we will talk about themes. When you have a set of styles consistently applied throughout Svelte components, you’ll see an overall styling theme in your components. We will talk about how to synchronize the styles across components, as well as how to let users of the components customize them.

By the end of the chapter, you will have learned various methods of styling and will be comfortable in choosing the right approach and applying the right...