Svelte Radio

Jeppe hosts with Brittany. Guests: Patak (Matias Capeletto, Vite core team) and Zeu Capua ( zeu.dev , software engineer, Svelte ambassador). What is npmx? A fast, open-source browser for the npm registry. It consumes the npmjs REST API and adds a better UI and more useful data on top. Started by Daniel Roe (Nuxt lead) ~40 days before recording. Patak joined as co-steward after seeing a two-day pro...

Kev and Jeppe, discuss the cold weather in Denmark and Sweden compared to Hawaii. They highlight that "Svelte Radio" has ranked number 13 (effectively number 12) in the podcast section of the State of JS 2025 survey, placing them among the "mainstream" podcasts and slightly increasing the pressure to produce relevant content. State of JS: Frameworks The hosts analyze the survey results for JavaScr...

Sorry about Jeppe's audio in this one, he accidentally picked the wrong microphone during recording and there's not much we can do about it :( The gang kicks back for their first episode of the new year, catching up on holidays before diving into AI and vibe coding. Kevin talks bout a gym tracking app he built almost entirely with LLMs.  They cover updates to the Svelte Society website (job board,...

In this episode of Svelte Radio, we welcome Jeppe as a new permanent host and sit down with Paolo Ricciuti, Svelte maintainer and Senior Software Developer at Mainmatter, to dive deep into Svelte custom renderers. Paolo walks us through how custom renderers work (using React's approach with React DOM, Ink, and React Native as context), explains the technical challenges of bringing this capability...

Guest Ilja - Berlin-based developer specializing in building websites and data visualizations for NGOs. Svelte Ambassador. Topics Discussed Working with NGOs vs. traditional businesses Budget constraints and project-based funding The AfroZensus project Svelte 5 migration Berlin Svelte Meetup announcement Berlin Svelte Meetup Date : December 9th (Tuesday) Venue : Datawrapper's office in Berlin Talk...

In this episode, Stanislav Khromov joins the Svelte Radio team to discuss his work on Svelte Bench, a benchmarking tool that scientifically measures how well different LLMs understand and write Svelte 5 code. The conversation explores the challenges of AI-assisted coding with Svelte 5, the development of the official Svelte MCP (Model Context Protocol) that provides LLMs with documentation and aut...

In this episode of Svelte Radio, Ken Kunz joins the hosts to discuss his journey with Svelte, from discovering it through Rich Harris's "Rethinking Reactivity" talk to building complex financial applications. Ken shares his experience working on Trading Strategy, a decentralized finance platform, and the challenges of implementing sophisticated charting solutions. The conversation also covers Ken'...

Summary In this episode of Svelt Radio, the hosts welcome Jeppe Reinhold from Chromatic to discuss the dramatic improvements in Storybook's Svelte integration. Jeppe shares how a critical video by Brittany struggling with Storybook setup sparked a complete overhaul of the Svelte experience, leading to better collaboration with the Svelte core team and significant enhancements in functionality.  Th...

Summary In this episode, Simon Holthausen from the Svelte team joins to discuss remote functions and async Svelte, two experimental features that are changing how developers interact with data in SvelteKit applications. Remote functions offer a new RPC-like approach that provides better type safety, more granular data loading, and improved developer experience compared to traditional load function...

Summary We're putting the band back together. Svelte Radio is officially back. This first episode is a bit of catch-up. Not a ton of Svelte chatter. Look forward to many fun and interesting episodes. Next week we talk with Simon about Remote Functions. Don't miss it! Show Notes Introducing SvelteKit Remote Functions, by Simon Holthausen SvelteKit Remote Functions tips: Auth guards, managing asynch...

Summary In this episode we sit down with Timothy Cohen and talk about his project SampleKit and Svelte 5. Sponsored by Svelte Summit Svelte Summit is an event dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. Don't miss it! It's going to be an absolute blast. It's happening on May 8 and 9, 2025 in Barcelona Spain. Background Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski How svelte works under...

Summary In this episode we sit down with Dominik G — a Svelte maintainer — and talk about Svelte 5 and the new Environment API in Vite 6. Sponsored by Svelte Summit Svelte Summit is an event dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. Don't miss it! It's going to be an absolute blast. It's happening on May 8 and 9, 2025 in Barcelona Spain. Discussion Who is Dominik? vite...

Summary In this episode we sit down with Rich Harris — creator of Svelte — and talk about the recent development of Svelte and SvelteKit. Sponsored by Svelte Summit Svelte Summit is an event dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. Don't miss it! It's going to be an absolute blast. It's happening on May 8 and 9, 2025 in Barcelona Spain. Discussion Rich Harris introduc...

Summary: In this episode we sit down with Scott Tolinski — cohost of Syntax.fm — to talk about Svelte 5 and local first development. Sponsored by Svelte Summit Svelte Summit is an event dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. Don't miss it! It's going to be an absolute blast. It's happening on May 8 and 9, 2025 in Barcelona Spain. Discussion Who is Scott? Check out S...

Summary: In this episode we sit down with Julian Burgess to talk about what he does at Bloomberg, how he uses Svelte and some thoughts about Svelte 5 and other exciting tech. Sponsored by Svelte Summit Svelte Summit is an event dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. Don't miss it! It's going to be an absolute blast. It's happening on May 8 and 9, 2025 in Barcelona S...

Summary: In this episode we sit down with Matias (patakdev) and Pete (pngwn) to talk about how Vite evolved into a framework agnostic build tool and what it has planned for the future. Recorded on June 28th, 2024 Discussion : Building and maintaining Vite Vite vs Snowpack Speeding up Vite with Rolldown Vite's new Environment API utilizing serverless APIs (Cloudflare D1, Key value etc.) Rich Harris...

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Sponsored by Contentful Welcome to the new era of content management with Contentful. Say goodbye to the limitations of traditional content systems and hello to a world where collaboration sparks innovation. With Contentful, you’re not just managing content; you’re creating content-first, multi-brand experiences across all channels effortlessly. The best part? It requires zero coding! Empower your...

Sponsored by Contentful Welcome to the new era of content management with Contentful. Say goodbye to the limitations of traditional content systems and hello to a world where collaboration sparks innovation. With Contentful, you’re not just managing content; you’re creating content-first, multi-brand experiences across all channels effortlessly. The best part? It requires zero coding! Empower your...

In this episode of Svelte Radio, join hosts Brittany and Kev as they dive into the world of web development with their guest Sam, a technical writer at Prismic. Brittany shares her latest experiences battling with Tailwind, Rails, and Svelte, emphasizing the learning journey that comes with navigating the complexities of modern web development. She also offers a valuable tip about CSS line height,...

Join us as we dive into an engaging conversation with Thomas G. Lopez, the brains behind the popular UI library in the Svelte ecosystem, MeltUI. Thomas shares his journey in web development, moving from Vue to React, and ultimately finding his passion in Svelte. Discover the unique challenges and triumphs he experienced while creating MeltUI and becoming a Svelte ambassador. Recorded on October 4t...

Today we chat with Geoff Rich about View Transitions. We explore what you can do with them, how to use them and much more. Can it be used with SvelteKit? Yes! Dive in and get all the tips! Recorded on September 27st. Description Who is Geoff? Website Twitter What are View Transitions? MDN Chrome for Developers Jake Archibald's Article on the Chrome Blog How do they work in SvelteKit? onNavigate sv...

We have chat with Svelte Hackathon winner Jason Bradnick (snuffy) about what it took to build his Wolfenstein clone in Svelte using only HTML, CSS and JS! No canvas used! He also talks about the work he's done on bringing the svelte language tools to SvelteLab. That means bringing the language server to the web! Recorded on September 21st. Notes Svelte Summit is happening on November 11th! Go subm...

We're back after a long summer vacation! We talk about what's new in Svelte, View Transitions and we give you an update on what we all have been doing! We talk about the very very sad news that Ivan Hofer has passed away. Unfortunately we had some pretty major recording issues this time and had to record over two days, sorry about that! Recorded on September 14th. Notes Svelte Summit is happening...

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