Wanted to talk about a new feature in LiveSvelte. You can now replace the default LiveView DSL with Svelte by using the ~V sigil. I hope to release it sometime next week in version 0.5.0 but you can preview it in version 0.5.0-rc0

Blogpost

I’m wondering why there is not more excitement about this?

I get that the key advantage of LiveView in the first place is getting away from the client-side js framework du jour, but this seems like quite a step up from using Alpine.js to do your sprinkling (I’m not sure what the latest phraseology is for that last bit of client-side functionality not easily workable in LiveView).

Others have mentioned that Alpine has security concerns in LiveView - does Svelte have the same problem?

I’m not questioning the feasibility of LiveSvelte, but I’m wondering how niche (or how valuable) a LiveView/Svelte developer will be in the job market. I am currently focussing on Phoenix/LiveView development and this thread has made me take a good long look at Svelte.

Great stuff Wout!

@victorbjorklund @ziazek
Both issues are fixed I believe. Best to reinstall the entire package with version 0.4.0 and follow the installation guide.

2 Extra steps have been added to the installation which I’ll try to simplify some time in the future, but for now I just want to make sure it’s working in a production environment. Works for me on fly.io and performance is good but that’s just a sample of 1

If anyone has it running in production please let me know.

Just want to say, this is a great library. Really good for dropping in Svelte components from npm.
Using it for complicated client side interactions + modals.

Appreciate it!

Thanks for creating this. I think it can be a really useful addition to Phoenix applications.

For anyone thinking ‘but why?!’ - I found the video of the talk that inspired LiveSvelte to be compelling: