Next.js Conf 2022: Preshow

[Lee] Good morning, good afternoon, good  evening everyone tuning in to Next.js Conf here live from San Francisco, New York, London,  and all over the world. Thank you for joining. I'm Lee Robinson, the VP of Developer Experience at Vercel and I'm joined today by my host [Delba] Hi I'm Delba,  Developer Advocate for Next.js [Lee] and we're just going to kick  things off today with a little pre-show. We're going to be joined by some community  members, by some conference speakers, and we also have a special video that  will show before we catch the keynote

so you're going to want to stay tuned here and hang out for the entire  pre-show as we bring in people. What are you most excited for for the event today? [Delba] Okay without giving too much away because there's a lot of  things to be excited about I think I'm most excited for developers to try out server components. For some people this is going to be the  first time they use server components and I really want them to see how intuitive it is. [Lee] Yeah. And also experience the performance improvements of server components. So as you know a few months  ago we released the layouts RFC

where we talked about server components so we are here to just lay out all the features that we have for you today [Lee] I yeah I'm very excited about that as well  too I think we're gonna have some big updates on that coming in the keynote soon you're not going to want to miss Before we bring on our first speakers today just a couple housekeeping items one for everybody tuning  in live at nextjs.org/conf,

that's the place to be to watch the keynote and all the community talks today. we also have the Next.js community Discord at nextjs.org/discord where you can ask questions, meet community members, and just hang out today during the event. So you'll want to go there and  meet everyone for the community. But uh, why don't we see if we can bring  in our first guest here pretty soon? We're uh we're pulling people out from the community out in the crowd [Delba] Should we actually take a look outside?

[Lee] Oh yeah that's a good idea let's take a look and cut over to the room we can see everyone hanging out here at SF Jazz getting their badges getting ready for the event today we  can also cut over to the door potentially see if there's  anybody walking in right now we've got some of the staff there letting people get into the event very exciting  we can cut back to the room I see I see some of the people we want to  bring in some of these Community speakers

[Lee] and uh yeah we can cut back and I think we can probably bring on our first speaker here pretty soon um this this person goes without introduction a member of the Vercel team somebody that we really enjoy working with and a little special guest here they created a framework [Delba] yeah [Lee] a language a compiler that that some people might be familiar with

called Svelte so why don't we bring on Rich Harris to come join us here today and chat a little bit. Everyone at home is just clapping along viciously. [Laughter]   [Lee] Great great thanks for joining us [Delba] Yeah it's so good to have you here! [Rich] Likewise [Delba] Yes, so we have a couple of questions we want to ask you yeah uh and one thing that has been kind of like a

major theme this year among frameworks has been routing right? So routing has been a big theme and you shipped your router Vercel kit quite fast so we want to ask you how has the reception been for layouts in pages and everything else? [Rich] Uh yeah so it's super interesting I mean I guess for like context for people who aren't familiar with any of this stuff. I work on a framework called Svelte and an application framework built on top of Svelte called SvelteKit and so that if Svelte is kind of the equivalent of React