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I used Gemini to compare the minimized output of the Rollup vs Rolldown JavaScript bundlers to find locations where the latter was not yet at the same degree of optimization. It wa…

fixed!

Hundreds of people had access to publish the Zapier SDK, so it's little surprise they were eventually compromised! ( https://bsky.app/profile/benmccann.com/post/3m6fdecsbdk2u ) The…

Yes, eslint is particularly frustrating: https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=eslint There are plenty of people in the community who would help reduce the number of dependencies, but it real…

The number 3, 4, and 5 contributors to SvelteKit in the past year work at Vercel: https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/graphs/contributors?from=8%2... Rich and Simon are incredibly impo…

Only 3/40 Svelte maintainers work at Vercel and they mainly finance work on Svelte core. SvelteKit day-to-day is primarily maintained by folks outside Vercel

Wouldn't vouch proxy only work with self hosted apps? How would you use it with a SaaS app?

What is the plastic.love you're referring to? That domain doesn't resolve for me. Do you mean PlasticList?

It's neither true that Svelte has few users or that we can easily break things. Tons of sites are built with Svelte like Yahoo Finance and Apple Music. Svelte 5 was the only big ch…

The updated knowledge cutoff is helping with new technologies such as Svelte 5.

NextAuth certainly needs some competition. However, I wish better-auth didn't have so many dependencies. I feel like it shouldn't be necessary to depend on things like kysley and T…

Check out https://www.perceptive.io/

I believe the reason for that was to enable event forwarding, which was a highly requested feature and makes a lot of things easier.

The docs for single page apps live at https://svelte.dev/docs/kit/single-page-apps By default, SvelteKit does SSR for the first page and client-side routing thereafter. This is ful…

You should only access credentials in `.server` files. We have a built-in feature that checks that you only access credentials in `.server` files to try to prevent newcomers from a…

Actually, I forgot that this landed as an official part of the docs now: https://svelte.dev/docs/llms It might still be a bit big, but PRs welcome if folks want to try slimming it …

I haven't used Claude much personally, but have seen https://svelte-llm.khromov.se/ built to help on that front, do you might want to check it out.

Vite does statically replace the `browser` variable with `true` or `false` based on whether you're on the client or server, but this shouldn't affect the correctness of your code. …

Files with `.server` in the name run only on the server. The remaining files run on the client and server. This is mentioned in the introduction on https://svelte.dev/docs/kit/rout…

Snippets are far more powerful than slots and so the change is not merely cosmetic. Snippets give you a way to create reusable HTML fragments within a component.

The v3/v4 docs can be found at https://v4.svelte.dev/ There is a migration guide as well as a migration tool that will migrate most of your code for you. You can also see what an i…

Svelte is doing its own Advent of Code challenge with a twist this year. Instead of challenging users, the maintainers will be challenging themselves to launch one feature a day. T…

JAWSM might be a more unique alternative if you're looking for any. Anyway, it's a cool project. Thanks for sharing!

shadcn-svelte is great!! https://www.skeleton.dev/ and https://flowbite-svelte.com/ are another couple of popular ones. There's a big list at https://www.sveltesociety.dev/packages…