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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

Styling Svelte components in six different ways

In a Svelte component, you have elements that define the structure and content. With styling, you can change the look and feel of the elements beyond the browser default.

Svelte components can be styled in six different ways. Let’s explore the different ways to apply a style to elements within a Svelte component.

Styling with the style attribute

Firstly, you can add inline styles to an element with the style attribute:

<div style="color: blue;" />

The preceding snippet will turn the color of the text within div to blue.

Similar to the style attribute in HTML elements, you can add multiple CSS styling declarations:

<div style="color: blue; font-size: 2rem;" />

The syntax of adding multiple CSS styling declarations in Svelte is the same as you would do in HTML. In the preceding snippet, we change the text within div to be blue in color and 2 rem in size.

The value of the style...