Rich Harris - State of the Sveltunion (5 Years of Svelte)

Hi everyone. Welcome to everyone who's here in this room in Brooklyn and welcome to everyone also on the live stream. Hopefully this is coming through okay. I can see myself on YouTube so I think it is. Just in this room raise your hands if you've been to a Self Society meeting before. Okay a few returners raise your hand if you haven't been to a Self Society

meeting before. Alright raise your hand if you didn't raise your hand. So the seed that would eventually grow into the Self.js was planted in my head in a bar from here called 61 local where for a few years every month the great and good of the New York JavaScript scene would gather for a meetup called Brooklyn.js and in a time when meetups were generally

fluorescent lit affairs with catered stale pizza, Brooklyn.js showed us the value of authentic community. We'd gather once a month and we would share our excitement about the fun and interesting and quick gasp of programming. And so I'm sure that we're able to gather here in person and continue some of that legacy. Of course this is not just an in-person event it's also a global conference. We have an international speaker list and we have virtual

attendees from every corner of the globe. So if you're one of those virtual attendees and you haven't already then I encourage you to join the Discord and hop in the Svelte Summit channel and be part of that community. So this month is the fifth birthday of Svelte and I felt like it's a good opportunity to take a moment to reflect on some of the milestones

along that journey. It all began at the end of November 30th. I'm going to increase the volume. Can I just like stand like this? Would that help? Oh, is this better? That's the microphone volume. I'm opening again here. Can you speak normally? Like from this distance? Okay. Yeah. Hopefully that would be better but it would take him a while to... Is the laptop sound off?

Sorry? Yeah, it's supposed to be off though. I'm not playing it from my laptop. Is that connected to Sandra anything? There's no sound on that. Yeah, no, but the microphone in. That's what we're doing. Is he hearing absolutely nothing? He's saying he's potato. That's how we describe potato. But he's saying maybe speak a little

bit slower as well because it's a log. Diction. Sorry about that. Okay. It probably doesn't help that I have three microphones connected to me and there's a lot of feedback. Okay, we'll keep going. So 30th of November 2016, we announced to the world on Hacker News, which meant that 30th of November of 2016 was the first time we got some Hacker News comments. And it's always a nice little reminder that it's the easiest thing in the world to be a naysayer, but you have to weigh up the immediate dopamine

rush with the chance that someone is going to screenshot your comment and use it five years later to make fun of you. July 2017, the first talk about Svelte was given at Brooklyn JS down the road. At the end of 2017, we launched Sapper, which was a full stack framework inspired by Next. It was our version of the ideal application framework built using Svelte and it was the