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Real-World Svelte

By : Tan Li Hau
4.3 (4)
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

Summary

In this chapter, we delved into various strategies for component composition in Svelte, each offering its own set of advantages and applicable scenarios. Mastering these techniques will equip you to build Svelte applications that are not only more dynamic but also easier to maintain and scale.

We kicked off by discussing multiple ways to influence a child component. These ranged from controlling props or using Svelte’s context to customizing styles via CSS custom properties, and even dynamically passing content through slots.

Then, we turned our attention to some of Svelte’s special elements. We explored <svelte:element> and <svelte:component> to dynamically render various HTML elements and Svelte components. We also learned about <svelte:self>, which allows a component to reference itself, thereby facilitating the creation of recursive UI structures. We then applied these newfound skills to build a JSON tree viewer as an illustrative example...