Rich Harris on Hydration and the future of SvelteKit

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Description
Rich Harris joins us for discussion on Svelte, SvelteKit, Hydration and a lot of other fun stuff. Enjoy!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Notes

• Svelte Summit Spring 2022 on April 30th!
  • Svelte London Meetup 28th
• Svelte Summit Fall 2022 in Stockholm on September 8-9
  • Stay tuned for the website!
• Svelte Society NYC
  • Rich's Talk and the Society tweet
  • Svelte Radio Episode 39 on Page Endpoints and Named Layouts
  • Svelte Radio Episode 40 on Svelte Element

Unpopular Opinions

• Antony: Nested code blocks make code hard to read!
• Shawn: Edge functions will reshape frontend architecture
• Rich: Hydration is NOT pure overhead
  • Article mentioned
  • Fred K Schott's take
  • Ryan Carniato's take
  • Sebastian Markbåge's take

Picks

• Kevin: Severance
  • Counterpart
• Antony: Houzecheck - cheapest - best service - contacted me to ask about specifics
• Rich: Oculus Quest 2
• Shawn: The Svelte Community
  • Web Standards in SvelteKit docs
  • Svelte Sirens on Landing Pages
  • KitDocs
  • Sv-popup
  • Svelte-splitpanes
  • SupaComments
  • Svelte Black Hole
  • Brittney Postma's Course
  • Mike's Svelte Course
  • Rill Data Developer