a little exploration into svelte, to help me (and hopefully others!) see how it can be used to create complex applications through simple examples.

so i had to learn react for work some time ago, and i got frustrated very quickly with it for many reasons (an opinion that i later learned isn't actually that uncommon). i don't really care to get into too much of the why here, but i do want to mention at least the things that drew me to svelte:

• it's dead simple, with anyone who's just learned html + css + js being able to pick up and play with it right away (in theory)
• it's very unopinionated about how you approach most problems
• it still has most of the core functionality that you'd want from a front end framework (value binding, component system, partial DOM rendering, etc)

react was getting harder and harder to work with over time, and i got sick of it. that's why this repo exists.

i'm still very much learning svelte, and as i figure out some more things i'll add them to this repo.

if you're already experienced with this stuff, then here's the necessary commands:

• from directory example-app run npm run dev -- --open
• from directory example-server run flask --app http_server --port 8000

if you don't know what the above means, then read ahead.

this is a full stack application, with svelte for the front end and flask for the back end. make sure that you have nodejs, python 3, and pip installed before continuing.

to get the svelte app running, cd into example-app and run npm install to pull down all the dependencies. then run npm run dev -- --open to start serving the svelte app and open it in your browser.

to get the http server running, cd into example-server and run pip3 install -r requirements.txt. then you should just be able to run flask --app http_server run --port 8000 and the server will start handling http requests on http:https://localhost:8000.