Svelte Kit Superforms: A Father's Guide

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NOTE: RECORDED April 19th.

Description

Forms in SvelteKit are already top notch. But Superforms make them even better. We talk to Andreas Söderlund, the creator of the library. Enjoy!

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

Discussion topics

• Haxe: https://haxe.org
• Form Actions: https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/form-actions
• sveltekit-superforms: https://github.com/ciscoheat/sveltekit-superforms
  • Documentation: https://superforms.vercel.app
  • Zod: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod
  • Timers: https://superforms.vercel.app/concepts/timers
  • Response Time Discussion: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/
  • Multiple Forms: https://superforms.vercel.app/concepts/multiple-forms

Unpopular Opinions

• Brittney: Don’t use libraries that don’t have first class support for esm or Vite.
• Antony: AI is not going to steal our jobs
• Andreas: NPM and package managers should be more restrictive with what they allow on their registries.

Picks

• Kev: Sauna
• Antony: These USB-C Cable - https://amzn.to/3ophxql
• Andreas: DCI - https://blog.encodeart.dev/dci-tutorial-for-typescript-part-1