2.17 - Building the Future of Svelte at Vercel with Rich Harris

We caught up with Rich Harris to see how he was settling into his new role with Vercel and what is next for Svelte.

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Recorded: February 9, 2022 10:00 AM (EST)

00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Rich Harris Intro
01:10 - How is Vercel?
02:07 - Vercel helping to grow Svelte
03:55 - What is Svelte
06:00 - Compiler and vDOM
09:18 - Svelte 4, SvelteKit 1.0 expectations
11:18 - Could Svelte be larger than other frameworks
13:25 - Is Svelte looking at fixing 3rd party scripts
17:41 - Islands Architecture and Fine Grained Reactivity
19:13 - How can Svelte get more market share and buy-in?
21:27 - VC backed open-source
22:00 - State of JS, Svelte is on the top
25:50 - What is your favorite part of Svelte Community?
26:57 - WebDev is supposed to be fun!
27:30 - Svelte Core Team
30:42 - GitHub Discussions
32:18 - Discord Help Threads
32:40 - Shadow Endpoints
36:56 - Middleware
38:18 - Endpoint from JS to JSON
39:55 - Is Svelte the best beginner framework?
42:43 - Should people learn JS before Svelte?
44:26 - Purrfect Picks
44:56 - Timemore Chestnut C2 Manul Coffee Grinder
46:43 - StackBlitz can run SvelteKit in the Browser
48:24 - Svelte Discord Server
49:09 - Intro to Svelte Course on CodingCatDev
49:41 - Frontend Horse Generative Grid in Svelte
50:40 - Thank you

[AlexanderSuraphel]

Great interview. At this point compilers and vDOM are not the only reactivity solutions. SolidJS has a different way of doing with reactive primitives. It would have been nice to hear what Rich thinks about it too.

[ofeenee]

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