In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about SvelteKit — what it is and why you might want to use it.
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Show Notes
03:28 - What is it?
- Total platform for building Svelte apps
- Built in Vite.js
- Includes all of the Vite goodness but it hides behind the scenes for the most part
- Host anywhere
05:16 - Is it CSR, SSR, SSG, WTF?!
- All of the above. Uses adapters to control the output:
kit: { // hydrate the element in src/app.html target: '#svelte', adapter: adapter() }
09:45 - What you get out of the box
- File-based routing
- API routes
- Layouts and layout resets
- Fancy file titles [slug] __layout
- Code splitting & preloading
- PostCSS
- TypeScript support
17:03 - Neat small things
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