Critique of Twitter Spaces, Browser Recommendations, and Community Highlights

This week we talk about a number changes that have been made to SvelteKit lately. (No! Not the big routing changes, those will be talked about next episode!) And Brittney is our second Master of Ceremony for Svelte Summit!

Sponsor
This week's episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late! 

Description
This week we talk about a number changes that have been made to SvelteKit lately. (No! Not the big routing changes, those will be talked about next episode!)

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

Notes

• Bubble Popping Game
• Svelte Documentary for those who missed it
• Rich Harris Commit Messages
  • https://twitter.com/The_Only_Tails/status/1549854642032492549
  • https://twitter.com/joyofcodedev/status/1549861807422164992
• SvelteKit Changes
  • Consistent Handling of Environment Variables
  • Uppercase HTTP Methods
  • Enforce vite.config.js requirment
• Dummdidumm is hired by Vercel to work on Svelte
• Beginner SvelteKit by Vercel
• Carbon Components by IBM
• fluent-svelte by Tropix126
• Community and Meetups
  • London Social and more photos here
  • Vienna
  • New York
  • Stockholm Monthly Svelte Lunch
• Storyblok with SvelteKit Josefine Schaefer - https://sveltesirens.dev/upcoming August 17, 1:30 EDT
• Last month - Testing in Svelte with Jess
• Highlights and libraries
  • Phoenix + Svelte https://nathancahill.com/phoenix-svelte
  • Svelte + SVG Bohr Atoms demo https://twitter.com/jrib_/status/1551605545563353088?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • React Hooks in Svelte - josh nuss https://twitter.com/danawoodman/status/1551582422780854272?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • Svelte + Remix demo https://twitter.com/crim_codes/status/1542684471195045889?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • Remix-routers https://github.com/brophdawg11/remix-routers
  • Form in Svelte - https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/3533#issuecomment-1197791727
  • Threejs + Svelte https://twitter.com/a_warnes/status/1543412625157021698?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • Bruno Simon: https://bruno-simon.com
  • Svelte Cascading Context store https://twitter.com/hamiltonulmer/status/1541548191010590720?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • Stolinski - Bookit https://twitter.com/stolinski/status/1551044830456729600?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
  • vitebook https://vitebook.dev/introduction/what-is-vitebook.html
  • Svelte command palette https://twitter.com/rohitpotato/status/1546388264915173378?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow

Unpopular Opinions

• Kev: SQLite is enough for most things! Use PocketBase ❤️: https://pocketbase.io
• swyx: Client-Server is not “Full Stack” anymore
• Brittney: Twitter spaces is the worst platform that is actually popular

Picks

• Kev: Orion Browser
• swyx: Really Bad Chess
• Brittney: Learn Build Teach - Wins of the Week