Benjamin Chibuzor-Orie iambenkay

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:

	import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
	import 'package:intl/intl.dart';

	class NumericTextFormatter extends TextInputFormatter {
	@override
	TextEditingValue formatEditUpdate(
	TextEditingValue oldValue, TextEditingValue newValue) {

	if (newValue.text.isEmpty) {

	#!/bin/bash
	# WebSocket shell, start & browse to http://<Host>:6655/
	# Requires bash 4.x, openssl.
	# Author: [email protected] (which isn't me, apk)
	coproc d { nc -l -p 6656 -q 0; }
	nc -l -p 6655 -q 1 > /dev/null <<-ENDOFPAGE
	HTTP/1.1 200 OK

	<html><head><script language="javascript">
	var url = location.hostname + ':' + (parseInt(location.port) + 1);