Curious about Svelte but comfortable with React? Join us as we take a simple NEXT/React app and migrate it live to SvelteKit/Svelte, showing how your existing React knowledge translates directly to Svelte concepts.

A reflection on how what I've learnt about Svelte in the last few weeks fits into the context of what I've learnt in the last 30 years of software development.

Although perhaps more suited to those new to Svelte or Svelte-curious, it will hopefully also still be of interest to a wider audience.

Discussing the process and challenges of creating Melt UI, alongside some unique benefits that Svelte brings to the table (SvelteKit packaging, preprocessors, actions, etc). Together with a demonstration of the current builders available.

3 small stories on the most recent hurdles (of many) that had to be overcome and an audience question at the end.

• Dealing with PostGIS for Postgres using DrizzleORM (this is an ongoing issue for the Drizzle team)
• Dealing with dynamic query building for DrizzleORM (another ongoing issue which is non-standard for most of these ORM libs... chaining where based on your biz conditions)
• Dealing with slide animation in SvelteKit (wanting to not need to prefetch the next listing but still have a pretty "card comes in" transition).