Very little surface area. It embraces your knowledge of plain ole CSS/JS/HTML and empowers you with reactivity and a means of if being able to add motion to your ui.
Newbs and Pros alike can build fast with it. That speed + reactivity allows your software to better keep up with your converstaions that make it all so. Thats insanely powerful.
It's soooo good. Congratulations to Richard Harris and everyone on the Svelte/SvelteKit Team! <3
im obsessed with offline-first/offline-only (optional) and have been trying to build all my products with the underlying philosophy of single-file tooling and “infra-less” in-mind; meaning it doesn’t care where it lives and highly portable by default.
here’s a note taking app that is all in a single html file. images are base64’d and data is kept in indexdb. https://github.com/bkeating/nakedNV
Here is a relevant Long Bet that I think about often (only has one year left to go!) https://longbets.org/601/ "The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years."