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SvelteKit

What is SvelteKit?

The official full-stack meta-framework for building Svelte applications, providing routing, server-side rendering, and API endpoints.

SvelteKit wraps the Svelte compiler into a complete application framework. It provides a highly intuitive filesystem router and seamless data loading mechanisms. It is heavily praised for producing extremely fast, zero-bloat web applications and provides robust tools for handling server-side logic and form submissions.

How it relates to Orbit

A SvelteKit app’s dev server can be started and watched from the project’s Servers tab. See Configure Dev Servers for details.

When you would use it

You use SvelteKit as the mandatory starting point when you want to build a serious web application using the Svelte framework.

Common operations

  • Building high-performance, lightweight web applications.
  • Developing full-stack tools with extremely small JavaScript bundle sizes.

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