Ryan Atkinson ryanatkn

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:

Goal: TypeScript-style tooling in Svelte

Getting TS in Svelte might be a blocker for some, but I think the underlaying advantage comes in that the TS tools are just a stricter version of the JS tools. Everyone using Svelte gets improvements in tooling from this, not just folks with TS.

Three main steps:

Migrate svelte-preprocess into core (and/or take enough functionality that it's not needed)
Create "svelte/svelte-language-tools" repo in main org
1. Add svelte-language-server
Add svelte-vscode

Notes for gregg pollack's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lPjY-JGZDY

Tools: AUDIO > Video. Use a good mic. Film yourself w/ natural light & good backdrop when explaining ideas. Use Screenflow, high res monitor (for zooming). Hire a film editor. Keynote/powerpoint. Use Animations! Get everything captioned!

Instructional Design:

Describe the problem first, dont just teach syntax.
Give Learning Objectives.
Show them what you're going to build, what they need to know
teach with visuals where needed
Show more than one example

I saw this poll on Twitter earlier and was surprised at the result, which at the time of writing overwhelmingly favours option 1:

I've always been of the opinion that the (req, res, next) => {} API is the worst of all possible worlds, so one of two things is happening:

I'm an idiot with bad opinions (very possibly!)
People like familiarity

From: pngwn/MDsveX#293

In #259 I alluded to other changes in v1, besides the configuration API. The biggest one is something that has been one of my biggest frustration in some regards: markdown itself. Now, lets get this out of the way: markdown is excellent and easily the best document markup format we have ever had. Kudos to Mr Gruber and all who have pushed markdown forward. Nothing in this document should be considered a derogation of markdown, I have nothing but respect and admiration for everything that has brought us to this point. This is a criticism, in many ways, but hopefully a constructive one. It is also just the opinion of a single penguin, and a penguin of questionable character, at that.

	"use strict";

	[foo,bar] = TNG(foo,bar);
	// NOTE: intentionally not TNG(..) wrapping useBaz(), so that it's
	// basically like a "custom hook" that can be called only from other
	// TNG-wrapped functions

	function foo(origX,origY) {
	var [x,setX] = useState(origX);
	var [y,setY] = useState(origY);