Svelte 5: What's New

Simon Holthausen &
44:01 min
Jan 25, 2024

Svelte is reinventing itself with version 5. The maintainer team has learned from past experiences and feedback, and is taking new directions with changes to the API. This talk provides an overview of the upcoming changes by migrating a little app to using the new APIs. You’ll see that Svelte has maintained its ease of use despite the syntactic changes, while becoming more consistent, scalable, and performant than ever.

Simon Holthausen

Svelte Core Team Member at Vercel

Simon Holthausen is a software-engineer at Vercel. He’s part of the Svelte maintainer team and works on Svelte full-time. He’s passionate about web development and is always keen to learn and explore new aspects in the field.

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