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Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity
Svelte creator Rich Harris explains moving reactivity into the compiler and language rather than tracking state at runtime, with a history of spreadsheets as reactive systems and comparisons to React.
Why HN readers recommended it
The most recommended introduction to Svelte, credited with sparking its adoption.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- You Gotta Love Frontend
- Topic
- frontend reactivity
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 15
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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It's a shame that the site's down. Until then, you can (and I heartily recommend doing so) watch the "Rethinking reactivity" video here: [VIDEO]
CharlesW on Hacker News · 2019-07
In Svelte is the most beautiful web framework I've seentl;dr watch this fantastic intro to svelte talk by it's creator: [VIDEO] , it covers some of the growing pains of React that svelte addresses. While it might look like the frontend is going around in circles, there are major & minor differences between the …
hardwaresofton on Hacker News · 2019-08
In Introduction to SvelteHighly recommend this talk [VIDEO] Rich Harris is an excellent speaker and it's worth seeing how Svelte approaches some things
gregors on Hacker News · 2020-03
In Svelte Is Unappealing
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