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Welcome back to Bytes! Although I missed last week due to a family medical emergency, I'm excited to be back on the horse providing this weekly round-up for you all. I hope you enjoy!
Week in Review
Vite 5 Approaches
On Monday, Vite core team member Matias Capeletto (@patak_dev) tweeted saying the Vite team is looking for feedback on experimental features, in order to solidify their APIs. Hopefully this means Vite's 5th major version is just around the corner!
SvelteLab Gets a CLI
On Friday, popular community built SvelteKit REPL, SvelteLab, released a CLI companion to their existing GUI web product. The CLI allows users to login to SvelteLab, as well as upload/download SvelteLab REPLs for local development.
Tamagui launches "Takeout"
On Thursday the React Native x Web UI kit, Tamagui, launched Takeout - a universal React Native + Web Starter Kit. Takeout includes a monorepo setup containing a Next.js application and an Expo application both powered by React Native. Engineers looking to build cross-platform applications should definitely checkout this new starter from Tamagui!
Community Content
Svelte Core team member Puru Vijay joins ThisDotMedia's Tracy Lee to explore the Svelte REPL
Jeff Delaney of Fireship.io, released an installment of his popular "100 seconds" series diving into SvelteKit
Renowned Streamer and Youtuber, ThePrimeagean, reacted to Rich Harris's 2019 letter "The Truth About Svelte" on stream and in a reaction video
OSS Spotlight
Melt UI
The most common gripe I hear about Svelte from engineers working with frameworks like React, is a lack of an "ecosystem". Appwrite's, Thomas Lopes is attempting to remedy this with the very extensible and powerful Melt UI. Melt is "an open-source collection of accessible & customizable component builders for creating user interfaces with Svelte". Melt provides primitives that allows developers to more easily build their own component libraries. This approach is similar to Radix UI in the React ecosystem.
written by Jacob Stordahl