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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

Integrating Libraries with Actions

There are a lot of JavaScript UI libraries out there on the internet. However, at the time of writing this book, Svelte is relatively new. Not all the UI libraries out there are written using Svelte and written specifically for Svelte. But that does not mean that we can’t use them in our Svelte component.

There are many ways to integrate third-party JavaScript UI libraries into Svelte. In this chapter, we are going to explore how we can do it using Svelte actions.

We will start by integrating an imaginary UI library, slowly building up our case for why Svelte actions are suitable for the job. Along the way, I will explain how to use Svelte actions for different scenarios and show you where Svelte actions fall short. I’ll discuss my reasonings and personal opinions on when to choose Svelte actions and when to choose otherwise.

Following that, I will show you some real-world UI library examples. After that, we will explore integrating...