Introduction

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NOTE: RECORDED March 15th.

Description

Puru Vijay joins us. You probably know him from his work on macOS web that made the rounds a while back. He's got a bunch of cool Svelte projects that you'll enjoy hearing more about in this one!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• macos Web
• Svelte Summit talk - How to migrate React libraries to Svelte
• Confetti
• Neodrag
• Neosvelte (Upcoming, planned), example
• The virtual dom is not pure overhead
  • https://twitter.com/manucorporat/status/1635309067634876416
  • https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
• Dev Vlog with Rich
• This week in Svelte
• Zero-effort type safety

Unpopular Opinions

• Cyclists who cycle in the road when good quality cycle lanes are available, are dickheads. (is this unpopular??)
• Storybook is still not there…for me (slots, argTypes)
• Puru: More like an unpopular sinful thought: Using React components in Svelte

Picks

• Kevin:
  • Chained Echoes: https://www.chainedechoes.com
  • Liason 
  • Shrinking
• Puru: Attack on Titan season 4 part 3 episode 1 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560140/
• Brittney: Don’t watch Willow