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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)

Transitions

Our app looks great already, but we could improve the user experience a bit with some transitions between the various views. With Svelte, this is available within the framework itself.

Svelte transitions

Svelte offers multiple pre-made transitions in the svelte/transition package. As of writing, there are six of them: blur, draw, fade, fly, and scale, slide. We will leave it as an exercise to the reader to try them and see their behavior!

Applying transitions

Transitions can only be applied to elements (that is, HTML tags) and not to Svelte components.

To make a DOM element transition nicely when appearing or disappearing, we just need to add a transition: property to its tag, followed by the name of the transition function. For example, take this snippet:

<button on:click={() => show = !show}>Click me</button>
{#if show}<p transition:blur>Hello world!</p>{/if}
<script>
import {blur} from 'svelte/transition'...