What's new in Svelte: May 2022

Dynamically switch between HTML element types with `<svelte:element>`

With yesterday's Svelte Summit behind us, we've got a lot of news to share! check out all of the recordings on the Svelte Society YouTube Channel and the rest of this month's updates below...

What's new in Svelte

• The <svelte:element> element lets you render an element of a dynamically specified type. This is useful for example when rich text content from a CMS. Check out the docs or the tutorial for more info (3.47.0)!

Language Tools updates

• svelte:element and sveltekit:reload are now supported

• Invalid Svelte import paths will now be automatically detected - see PR for getting back the old behavior (#1448)

• source.sortImports lets you sort imports without deleting unused imports (#1338)

• Hovering over HTML attributes will now show HTML hover info instead of the TS hover info - resulting in much more useful information (#1447)

• In VS Code, you can now wrap existing blocks of code in control flow tags using the Insert Snippet command (#1373)

What's new in SvelteKit

• Files and directories can now be named __tests__ and __test__ in the routes directory (#4438)

• The platform parameter is now available for requests triggered by fetch in load during SSR (#4599)

• Netlify Edge Functions (#4657) and the Vercel build output API (#4663) are now supported

• Custom load dependencies, array of strings representing URLs the page depends on, are now available when loading routes (Docs, #4536)

Breaking Changes

• Validators are now called "matchers" (Docs, #4358)

• __layout.reset has been replaced by named layouts - which have much configurability for shared layout elements (Docs, #4388)

• Prerendering is now skipped for rel="external" links (#4545)

• maxage is now cache in LoadOutput (#4690)

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Community Showcase

Apps & Sites built with Svelte

• polySpectra AR lets you prototype faster 3D Printing with seamless AR file handoffs (video demo)

• Pixel Art Together is a free multiplayer pixel art editor powered by Liveblocks

• Tooling Manager lets you compare your JavaScript Tech Stack against industry standard boilerplates

• Easy Portfolio is a portfolio generator based on your GitHub Profile

• FLOAT is an attendance tracking program for events

• The Coin Perspective is a cryptocurrency price tracker and portfolio management tool

• Locutionis is a small, online reference of figures of speech (en français)

• ASM Editor is an all in one web editor for M68K and MIPS

• Otium is a free and open source book manager and bookshelf organiser, that helps you managing your books and the ones you would like to read

• Sinwaver is an SVG sine wave generator

Want to contribute to a modern SvelteKit website? Help build the Svelte Society site!

Learning Resources

To Read

• 4 tips for cleaner Svelte components by Geoff Rich

• Building a Clubhouse clone with Svelte and 100ms By Seun Taiwo

• SvelteKit uvu Testing: Fast Component Unit Tests by Rodney Lab

• SvelteKit JWT authentication tutorial by pilcrowOnPaper

• Converting a Rollup-based Svelte SPA to SvelteKit by Simon H

• Add Commitint, Commitizen, Standard Version, and Husky to SvelteKit Project by David Peng

To Watch or Hear

• Rich Harris - The Road to SvelteKit 1.0 (Svelte Society NYC) by Svelte Society

• Svelte Fundamentals - Intro to Svelte by Coding Cat

• Svelte Components Using Custom Markdown Renderers - Weekly Svelte by LevelUpTuts

• Implementing {@const} in if block by lihautan

• Svelte and Contributing to Open-Source with Geoff Rich by 20minJS

Libraries, Tools & Components

• KitDocs is a documentation integration for SvelteKit - like VitePress for Svelte.

• Svelte Copy is a click/tap-to-copy library that makes it easy to copy to the clipboard

• Svend3r provides beautiful visualizations that harness the power of D3 to bring your data to life while abstracting away its imperative-style code

• Svelte Hamburgers is the easy to use Hamburger menu component for Svelte

• Svelte Droplet is a file dropzone for Svelte

• Svelte MP3 is a light blazingly fast yet simple minimalistic audio player for Svelte

• SvelteUI is a component library for building fully functional & accessible web applications faster than ever

• svelte-spotlight is a headless spotlight component to help you build your site's global search box in minutes

• svelte-pdf-simple is a simple svelte library for displaying pdfs and giving you all the control

• persistent-svelte-store is a generic persistent writable store, built from scratch in TypeScript according to the Svelte store contract

• svelte-exmarkdown is Svelte component to render markdown dynamically

• Bookit is a storybook-like component rendering environment - finely tuned to work directly within your SvelteKit projects

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See y'all next month!