[rich_harris]

Ha, did not expect this to be on the front page of HN today! Some quick context: in January I was in London for a few days, and while I was there we had a Svelte Society London event.

This document is a text version of a talk I gave there, which expands on some of these ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eswNQiq4T2w&t=5211s

It's deliberately brief and vague in parts, because it's designed to spur conversation. It's not set in stone, nor is it an Official Statement on behalf of the Svelte team — it's an attempt to articulate the way that the maintainers tend to find ourselves thinking about some of these topics, as viewed through my personal lens. If it helps explain why you like Svelte, great! If it helps explain why you hate it, that's great too — that's the whole point. Have fun with it, and if there are parts you disagree with then your homework is to think through what kind of tenets would describe your ideal framework.

Also, it's Saturday — get off Hacker News :)

[SandraBucky]

Hey rich, we love your work at my team mahn. Keep doing what you are doing.

[iamcreasy]

Thank you for creating Svelte. I have basic web dev experience using no-framework. Is there any high level overview article explaining how Svelte compiler transpiles Svelte file into a series of html,css and javascript and wires them up together?

[monero-xmr]

Svelte rekindled my love for frontend development - thanks for your efforts!

[rykuno]

Awesome efforts on Svelte Rich; have a good weekend!