A UI framework without the framework (Changelog Interviews #332)

Jerod and Adam talked with Rich Harris –a JavaScript Journalist on The New York Times Investigations team– about his magical disappearing UI framework called Svelte. We compare and contrast Svelte to React, how the framework is embedded in a component, build time vs. run time, scoping CSS to components, and CSS in JavaScript. Rich also shares where Svelte v3 is heading and the details on Sapper, a framework for building extremely high-performance progressive web apps, powered by Svelte.

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Featuring:

• Rich Harris – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Thanks to Kevin McGee for suggesting this interview on Ping
• The Great Divide by Chris Coyier
• Frameworks without the framework; why didn’t we think of this sooner?
• Rich’s spectacular work on display in a piece for The New York Times on Twitter bots
• Watch Rich’s talk at JSConf EU 2018, “Computer, build me an app”
• Svelte website
• Follow Svelte on Twitter

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