Svelte Summit 2020, Sapper is getting some love and Elder.js is really cool!

This week we announce the new online conference Svelte Summit as well as talk about Elder.js - an amazing new static site generator. Oh! And some good news. From this episode and on, we have an editor and the episodes will be transcribed.

Sponsors:

• Mono is a digital product studio that works remotely. Within the Svelte community you might know Wolfr he is a designer that worked on the Routify, Svelte Society day and Svelte Summit website. He wanted to sponsor this episode with a simple message: as a design team, they are open for client projects. They have extensive experience designing web applications with full-on custom design systems. Mono is typically responsible for the UI and UX in a project and they work alongside developer teams.
• Level Up Tutorials brings you cutting-edge, focused & high quality video tutorials for web developers and designers. Check out the Svelte For Beginners as well as Sapper for Beginners courses.

Links: 

• Svelte Society Day France - September 27th, 13 talks! 
• Svelte Summit is on October 18th - CFP and Sponsors can apply now!
• Routify 2.0
• Roxi
• Elder.js - A new crazy-fast static site generator built for SEO and many other use-cases. Partial hydration using Jason Miller's Islands Architecture
• Svelte Tutorial on MDN

Picks:

• Streamyard
• Gloomhaven
• Jack Box Games

Transcription:

EPISODE 09

[INTRODUCTION]

[00:00:00] KA: Hey, everyone. Welcome to another Svelte Radio Podcast. This week, we don’t have a guest. But as usual, the three of us are here. So, I’m Kevin. I run a site called Svelte School, where you can find tutorials and the training material to learn Svelte. And I’m joined by my two other cohosts, Shawn and Anthony. Do you want to go ahead and present yourselves? 

[00:00:28] SW: Hey, everyone. This is Shawn. I guess I have to do some self intro. I work at AWS as a senior developer advocate, and happy to be here. 

[00:00:38] AJ: I’m Anthony, and I the CTO of Beyonk, which is a booking platform, book software for experiences and travel. And I am also a Svelte maintainer. 

[00:00:49] KA: Amazing. So since last time, what have you guys been up to? Have you done anything interesting? 

[00:00:57] SW: Well, I can go while you guys think of your updates. I can only think about the things that I’ve been doing recently, which is not doing Svelte. So kind of the biggest community React Conference is called React Rally, and it’s happening tomorrow. And I spent the last two weeks essentially – Well, this is Svelte related. I’ve created Svelte for React. Basically, the way that you do immutability and sort of assignment in Svelte, you can actually just point that over to React. I did that. And then I made a whole talk around it with the whole idea of like why you should be experimenting with different formats and stuff like that. 

Preparing any talk is big, but I think this conference is special to me because that’s how I first stated. That’s my first ever conference in 2018. That’s the first talk I ever gave. And I owe a lot to that conference. So I wanted to do a good job.

[00:01:54] AJ: Yeah. From my point, it has been 38+ degrees here in the UK and it’s very hard to work and very hard to think in that kind of heat. And specially we don’t have air con in our houses and stuff like that. So it’s just a matter of – I don’t even know. There’s no way to stay cool. But meanwhile, I’ve been obviously working hard in my startup, which is Beyonk. And then we’ve been doing a fair bit of Svelte work. So mostly that and making contribution a bit easier. Getting some PRs closed and that sort of thing. Yeah, all kind of very software-related and the crazy heat.

[00:02:39] KA: Okay. So I’ve been working these last few weeks on the new Svelte Society Day website as well as the upcoming conference that we’re going to talk about in a bit. Spoiler alert. Then today we are also going to talk about some other stuff. There’s new static side generator. Routify just released their 2.0 release, and a couple of other random things. 

Let’s get started. First off, Svelte Society Day France. I heard they had like a lot of proposals.

[00:03:17] SW: Yeah, they did better than you. They’ve got some proposals so far. I’m not sure when this is going to release, but they’re aiming to close proposals on 16 of August. But they have a good selection. It’s always better to have more, I think. And I think the actual event is happening at the end of September. If I was any good at this job, I would have their URL in front of me. It’s actually france.sveltesociety.dev. Basically, if you speak French and you do Svelte, you should come to this meet-up, or conference, or whatever it is, on the 27th of September, and it will be a good time.

[00:03:54] AJ: I think it’s worth noting. We’re talking about it in Discord and they were saying that sort of majority French talks, but not exclusively. So they might have some English language talks as well. 

[00:04:05] KA: Yeah. I was going to say, I’m going to check it out even if I don’t speak French.  

[00:04:11] AJ: Yeah. Yeah, exactly. There might be opportunity there if you don’t speak French. They’ll also still – They’ll join in and participate and sort of learn some stuff.

[00:04:18] KA: Yeah. All right. The big one, Svelte Summit 2020. This is the new conference. Yeah.  

[00:04:28] AJ: With the shiny, shiny site.  

[00:04:31] KA: Exactly. By the time you listen to this, the website is going to be alive, and you’re going to find it on three different URLs. But mainly I would probably go to sveltesummit.com. So this is pretty much the new Svelte society day, but with a shinier name, cooler website and more speakers, hopefully. We’ll see. We’ll be opening the call for proposals as soon as this podcast goes out. 

[00:05:00] AJ: But what sort of talks are we looking for for these companies?  

[00:05:04] KA: That’s a good question. If you’re interested in doing a talk, I would submit it regardless of the subject pretty much as long as it’s Svelte related, of course.