Chapter 1: Meet Svelte

When developers think of JavaScript frameworks, the options abound. Even within the narrow scope of front-end development that we're covering in this book, most developers will be familiar with (or have at least heard of) tools such as Angular, React, and Vue.

However, you picked up this book because you've heard of Svelte, and you've heard of it's growing in popularity. You've probably also heard that Svelte is different, and that there's something magical about it. I'm using the word magical on purpose: in fact, the original tagline for the Svelte project was "the magical disappearing UI framework."

This book is about the Svelte 3 front-end JavaScript framework, the last version as of the time of writing, which was released in April 2019.

You can use Svelte to build single, reusable components for projects of any kind, including larger applications written with Angular, React, Vue, or any other frameworks...