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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 with Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework. It comes with predefined classes, such as flex, pt-4, and text-center, which you can use directly in your markup:

<div class="flex pt-4 text-center" />

We are going to use Vite’s Svelte template as a base to set up Tailwind CSS. If you are not familiar with setting up Vite’s Svelte template, here are the quick steps to set it up:

  1. Run the Vite setup tool:
    npm create vite@latest my-project-name -- --template svelte

    This will generate a new folder named my-project-name containing the basic files necessary for a Svelte project.

  2. Step into the my-project-name folder and install the dependencies:
    cd my-project-name
    npm install
  3. Once the dependencies are installed, you can start the development server:
    npm run dev

With the Svelte project up and running, let’s look at what we need to do to set up Tailwind CSS.

Setting up Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS has...