Episode 6 - Svelte and Contributing to Open-Source with Geoff Rich

20minJS

In this episode, we discuss the origins of Svelte as well as why should you give it a try if you haven't already.
Geoff also shares with us how to get started with contributing to Open-Source, including some of the benefits of doing it for developers.
Get in touch with Geoff:
- Blog: https://geoffrich.net/
- Twitter: @geoffrich_
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Chapters

1. Episode 6 - Svelte and Contributing to Open-Source with Geoff Rich (00:00:00)

2. Who is Geoff? (00:01:31)

3. What is Svelte? (00:02:22)

4. Why was Svelte created? (00:03:39)

5. Why isn't Svelte more popular? (00:05:52)

6. Working with external vanillaJS libraries and Svelte (00:11:15)

7. Reactivity in Svelte (00:12:59)

8. Is starting with Svelte before Rect or Vue the right wa to learn? (00:15:09)

9. Is Svelte ready for everything you throw at it? (00:16:38)

10. Getting started with OpenSource (00:18:01)

11. The best advice he ever received (00:20:55)

12. Get out of tutorial hell early on (00:21:53)