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Using Svelte in React with Puru Vijay Apr 04, 2023

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NOTE: RECORDED March 15th.

Description

Puru Vijay joins us. You probably know him from his work on macOS web that made the rounds a while back. He's got a bunch of cool Svelte projects that you'll enjoy hearing more about in this one!

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

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macos Web
Svelte Summit talk - How to migrate React libraries to Svelte
Confetti
Neodrag
Neosvelte (Upcoming, planned), example
The virtual dom is not pure overhead
- https://twitter.com/manucorporat/status/1635309067634876416
- https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
Dev Vlog with Rich
This week in Svelte
Zero-effort type safety

Unpopular Opinions

Cyclists who cycle in the road when good quality cycle lanes are available, are dickheads. (is this unpopular??)
Storybook is still not there…for me (slots, argTypes)
Puru: More like an unpopular sinful thought: Using React components in Svelte

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Kevin:
- Chained Echoes: https://www.chainedechoes.com
- Liason
- Shrinking
Puru: Attack on Titan season 4 part 3 episode 1 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560140/
Brittney: Don’t watch Willow

I got a cold and had fever dreams about React 😱 Mar 30, 2023

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NOTE: RECORDED March 1st.

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

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i18n
Dynamic basepath
Svelte 4.0 Milestones
Geoff Rich - website, twitter
Beyonk is Hiring
- AuroraJS
Job openings
- Spiegel - German Newspaper Visual Svelte
- UBS - message @ranzucker - Jr and Sr Svelte dev
- Railbird Software Engineer
Threlte has scrolly telling capabilities now
Svelte Hackathon

Unpopular Opinions

Antony: Cloud abstractions are good actually
Languages

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Antony: LED Strips on a Pram
Brittney: Hogwarts Legacy

LevelUpTuts 6 months later with Scott Tolinski Mar 28, 2023

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NOTE: RECORDED February 7th.

Description

We sit down to talk with Scott Tolinski about the re-build of LevelUp Tutorials! Was it 6 months since the re-build? We don't know, but it was a while ago! 😅

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

Discussion topics

React to Svelte YT video
- From React to Svelte
- Basic React To Svelte Conversion - Weekly Svelte - YouTube
Mitosis
Kit Snapshots
Level Up Tutorials - Learn modern web development
Animation With Svelte (with Scott Tolinski) — Learn With Jason - YouTube
greensock
Locals - hooks
auto form meteor
Bookit
Travis Neilson
- Twitter
- YouTube

Unpopular Opinions

Scott: JSX is a templating language, React is not JUST JavaScript
Brittney: OSS Maintainers should

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Kev: Megaman X Corrupted - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pk-DsDpiBo
- Snes Drunk
Scott: Niimbot - https://amzn.to/40Dc6CH
Brittney: This Week in Svelte

Svelte Hackathon Announcement Mar 23, 2023

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NOTE: RECORDED JANUARY 25th.

Description

Announcing the Svelte Hackathon! Join in and win prizes!

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

Discussion topics

Sirens stream - The story behind the (unofficial) Svelte newsletter
What’s new in Svelte Feburary
- https://old.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/comments/10iud65/svelte_40_feature_speculation_suggestions/
Native like SvelteKit: https://twitter.com/stellanhaglund/status/1613909926849699843?s=46&t=EOdi-gI9HatKWl7CcxILig

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Antony: CRUMB - https://crumbsim.com
Kevin: The Last of Us: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3581920/
Brittney: Arc Browser

Building furniture using Svelte with Bert Bengtson Mar 16, 2023

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Description

We sit down with Bert Bengtson, known for his wacky and very awesome Svelte Summit talks. Surely you must remember the desk chair talk? Or the most recent one where he runs around a room full of Svelte developers? Tune in for an awesome episode!

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

Discussion topics

Ashley Furniture
How did you end up using Svelte?
- Why Modals are Hard https://gist.github.com/ryanflorence/fd7e987c832cc4efaa56
- Antony’s example at Beyonk (click Send enquiry)
- Dialog element https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dialog
- https://open-ui.org/ - Dialog | Open UI (open-ui.org)
- https://www.a11yproject.com/checklist/
- Bookit https://bookit.leveluptutorials.com/
- Histoire: https://histoire.dev/
- Storybook https://storybook.js.org/
Svelte Summit Talks
- The Highs and Lows of Migrating a Massive Ecommerce Website To Svelte and SvelteKit
- When Keeping it Svelte Goes Wrong. An Analysis of Some of the Worst Svelte I Have Ever Coded
SvelteKit - vitest
That conf: https://that.us/
Vue post on r/Javascript and r/Vue - discussing Vue 2 to Vue 3 transition
- https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/2022-year-in-review.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/102brhc/vuejs_2022_year_in_review_and_what_to_expect_in/

Unpopular Opinions

Bert: Styling using semantic aria is the goat!
Brittney: Remix will NOT go all in on Web Components
- Austin crim: remix talk - Svemix? Re-svmix? Re-svelte?: Bringing Svelte to Remix Router: https://youtu.be/A8jkJTWacow?t=11096
  - remix-routers/packages/svelte at main · brophdawg11/remix-routers · GitHub
- https://github.com/pixelmund/svemix
Antony: Twitter/Reddit Bookmarks are the worst implemented feature ever - use Pocket

Picks

Kev: Nostr and Svelte French Toast
- https://svelte-french-toast.com/
- Nostr Protocol - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
  - Damus - https://github.com/damus-io/damus
Bert: Hypno Space Outlaw
Swyx: Fave New Podcasts of 2022
Brittney: ui.dev | JavaScript, but fun. Bytes Newsletter
- Danger Crew
Antony: I’m a Computer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH1ekuvSYzE

We all live in a Svelte Submarine Mar 09, 2023

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Description

It’s the holiday season - yet there is a lot going on in the Svelte world. We discuss all the recent news, AI, Skeleton UI and the updates to the Svelte Sirens page. Listen to find out how Svelte is used in Submarines, what the results of the Stack Overflow survey 2022 are and why DevRel sucks.

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

Ron Au's story and how to be whimsical! Jan 26, 2023

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Description
We have a chat with Ron Au, the creator of the infamous floating head talk from 2019! He tells us about his journey from journalism into web development and how he ended up at Hugging Face. Enjoy!

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

Notes

Swyx's Company Conf
- Bang Bang Con
- Have you tried rubbing a database on it?
Who is Ron?
People Mentioned
This Pokemon Does not Exist
Ron's Svelte Summit Talks
Imba & Scrimba

Unpopular Opinions

Ron: Svelte is BAD - way too happy when using it. Meeting a ton of interesting people. UGH! THE WORST!
Swyx: English has won, Duolingo should not exist

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