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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

Manipulating how a child component looks

When you’re combining multiple components, you’ll need to manage how each child component appears and behaves. Even though a child component handles its own display and logic, it still offers controls to tweak its appearance and behavior. From the perspective of the parent component, you’ll want to coordinate these child components to achieve the desired overall functionality.

In this section, we’ll explore various ways to control the look of child components, ranging from the most to the least commonly used methods. Understanding these options will equip you with the tools to make your components both versatile and effective.

The list of options to control how the child component looks includes the following:

  • Controlling through props: This is perhaps the most straightforward way to influence the behavior and appearance of a child component. By passing props from a parent component to a child, you can...