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Svelte 3 Up and Running

By : Alessandro Segala
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Svelte 3 Up and Running

By: Alessandro Segala

Overview of this book

Svelte is a modern JavaScript framework used to build static web apps that are fast and lean, as well as being fun for developers to use. This book is a concise and practical introduction for those who are new to the Svelte framework which will have you up to speed with building apps quickly, and teach you how to use Svelte 3 to build apps that offer a great app user experience (UX). The book starts with an introduction to Svelte 3, before showing you how to set up your first complete application with the framework. Filled with code samples, each chapter will show you how to write components using the Svelte template syntax and the application programming interfaces (APIs) of the Svelte framework. As you advance, you’ll go from scaffolding your project and tool setup all the way through to production with DevOps principles such as automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Finally, you’ll deploy your application in the cloud with object storage services and a content delivery network (CDN) for best-in-class performance for your users. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to build and deploy apps using Svelte 3 to solve real-world problems and deliver impressive results.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Chapter 2: Scaffolding Your Svelte Project

After hopefully selling you on the benefits of building your next project as a JAMstack app with Svelte 3, we're now ready to start developing our proof-of-concept application.

However, as with every new technology or framework, we first need to prepare our environment to be ready to work with it. This requires installing the necessary interpreter and runtime dependency, setting up tooling, and scaffolding a new project.

In this chapter, we'll be covering the following topics:

  • Setting up your environment: We'll install Node.js, set up Visual Studio Code as our editor (optional, but recommended), and start the backend service for our app.
  • Scaffolding a project with Webpack: We'll create our Svelte project and scaffold it using Webpack as a bundler.
  • "Hello, Svelte!": Our take on "hello world".
  • Debugging Svelte applications in a web browser.

At the end of this chapter, you'll have a scaffolded project for Svelte 3. You can find the end result on GitHub at https://bit.ly/sveltebook-ch2.