Rich Harris: Futuristic Web Development

Why HN readers recommended it

Cited as the source for Sapper's end and SvelteKit's origin, and as an early view of where JS frameworks were heading.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Svelte Society

Topic

svelte and sveltekit

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2022

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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• In addition to links in sibling comments, there's the official Svelte blog with regular updates: [LINK] and this video from recent conference on the future of Svelte: [VIDEO]

• Check out the creator's first posts and videos of sveltekit when he introduced the alpha version: [VIDEO] The way I understand it is it's an evolution of sapper to be more versatile, especially with respect to the backend. Out of the box it can work …

• Rich Harris did a great talk[0] at an early stage of SvelteKit's development called "Futuristic Web Development". I really do believe this is the next phase of how JS web frameworks will work in the future. [0] [VIDEO]