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.
The official interactive tutorial was the way I initially learned Svelte, and it's seen some highly-impressive improvements over the past year. Perfect place to start if you're curious about Svelte!
What were the YouTube channels, tutorials, articles, or other resources that helped you learn Svelte?
The main Svelte site is 10/10 for me - it's really worth spending the time to go through it from front to back.
Carbon Components Svelte is an amazing set of UI components, which uses IBM's Carbon Design System. Not only does it let you put together really professional-looking UI's effortlessly (I use it for all my admin areas!), but it is really well made and documented. It's taught me a lot about how to break things up into discrete, reusable, inter-linking components.
But really, as with most things, it's setting yourself a goal and learning everything you need to achieve it. For example, I set myself the goal of creating a Virtual Tabletop (VTT). I have no need for it and no intention to release it, but I learnt so much doing it.
EDIT: Also, go and read all the Vite documentation; a lot of what I thought was SvelteKit was actually Vite, and after having spent time learning it SvelteKit is much less of a magic box to me now!