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Last active March 27, 2024 06:09
The truth about Svelte

I've been deceiving you all. I had you believe that Svelte was a UI framework — unlike React and Vue etc, because it shifts work out of the client and into the compiler, but a framework nonetheless.

But that's not exactly accurate. In my defense, I didn't realise it myself until very recently. But with Svelte 3 around the corner, it's time to come clean about what Svelte really is.

Svelte is a language.

Specifically, Svelte is an attempt to answer a question that many people have asked, and a few have answered: what would it look like if we had a language for describing reactive user interfaces?

A few projects that have answered this question:

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liamcurry / gist:2597326
Created May 4, 2012 19:56
Vanilla JS vs jQuery

Moving from jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})