1 Meet the players

This chapter covers

  • Svelte
  • Sapper
  • Svelte Native

Svelte (https://svelte.dev/) is a tool for building JavaScript-based web applications. It is an alternative to web frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular. Like them, Svelte focuses on defining user-interface (UI) components and their interactions. Each UI component is an independent, potentially reusable part of a larger user interface that can be independently designed and implemented.

Svelte has many benefits over other web frameworks:

  • Apps produced using Svelte require less code than most frameworks to implement the equivalent functionality.

  • Svelte produces smaller bundle sizes, which results in decreased browser load times.

  • Svelte greatly simplifies state management, ...

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