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Svelte + SvelteKit

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Svelte is a JavaScript framework for building user interfaces (UIs) that compiles your code into efficient JavaScript during the build process, resulting in better performance and smaller bundle sizes. Svelte focuses on reactive programming, where UI components update themselves when data changes, eliminating the need for a virtual DOM. Svelte Kit is an extension of Svelte that adds features like routing and server-side rendering, simplifying the creation of full-stack web applications. It provides file-based routing and supports server-side rendering, enabling faster initial page loads and improved search engine optimization. Svelte Kit combines client-side Svelte components with server-side rendering and serverless functions for a seamless development experience.

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I'm going to use svelte and sveltekit. Most likely tailwind. Zod for validation.

Any tips and tricks/ideas, pits to watch for before I commit heavily into falling into them.

This project could potentially be in vue/react but in my opinion svelte is more appealing to me (specially because of stores)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you’re handling any sensitive data, passwords, or private user data, DO NOT use stores. Stores should only be used on the client-side. Use event.locals to pass data around for the user on the server side instead. If you use a store on the server-side, you risk that data being exposed or used in other current users and browser session.

For form validation, check out SvelteKit form actions. Also, I personally find Yup to be easier to use than Zod

[–] 8rhn6t6s 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Learn about hooks if you need validation on page navigations

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you explain an use case. I don't understand what would need to be validated when navigating.

[–] 8rhn6t6s 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is more protecting data.

For example if you have a page that only certain users can view. You can create a hook to validate their credentials every time they visit that page and redirect them out if necessary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh so authentication, I was thinking form validation. Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same as any other project, just keep at it. Also styling as a prop is a bitch in svelte.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by styling as a prop?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know how in react, you can pass style to nested components with props? The classname/SX prop specifically? A tad harder to do in svelte.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’d try using props for high-level component states (primary, secondary, disabled, loading, online, error, etc.) instead of one-off styles. Then your props will manage a bunch of styles and functionality all at once and you’ll stay a whole lot more organized. You can even have a settings/options prop that changes minor things if you’d like. Then, for one-off or edge-cases related to styling, you can use a css variable