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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

Example – integrating Tippy.js

Tippy.js is a tooltip, popover, dropdown, and menu library.

I do not have any affiliation with the Tippy.js library, and the reason I chose Tippy.js as an example is purely by chance. Nonetheless, Tippy.js has a nice and simple API, making it a good candidate for an example.

First, let’s look at the Tippy.js documentation: https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/.

After installing the tippy.js library using a package manager of our choice, we can then import Tippy.js into our code:

import tippy from 'tippy.js';
import 'tippy.js/dist/tippy.css';

Now, we can initialize tippy with the following constructor function:

tippy('#id');
tippy(document.getElementById('my-element'));

Here, we pass in the element where Tippy.js should provide a tooltip.

You can specify any customizations of the tooltip's content through the data attributes of the element, which Tippy.js will pick up as it initializes...