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Description

We sit down with Bert Bengtson, known for his wacky and very awesome Svelte Summit talks. Surely you must remember the desk chair talk? Or the most recent one where he runs around a room full of Svelte developers? Tune in for an awesome episode!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

Ashley Furniture
How did you end up using Svelte?
- Why Modals are Hard https://gist.github.com/ryanflorence/fd7e987c832cc4efaa56
- Antony’s example at Beyonk (click Send enquiry)
- Dialog element https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/dialog
- https://open-ui.org/ - Dialog | Open UI (open-ui.org)
- https://www.a11yproject.com/checklist/
- Bookit https://bookit.leveluptutorials.com/
- Histoire: https://histoire.dev/
- Storybook https://storybook.js.org/
Svelte Summit Talks
- The Highs and Lows of Migrating a Massive Ecommerce Website To Svelte and SvelteKit
- When Keeping it Svelte Goes Wrong. An Analysis of Some of the Worst Svelte I Have Ever Coded
SvelteKit - vitest
That conf: https://that.us/
Vue post on r/Javascript and r/Vue - discussing Vue 2 to Vue 3 transition
- https://blog.vuejs.org/posts/2022-year-in-review.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/102brhc/vuejs_2022_year_in_review_and_what_to_expect_in/

Unpopular Opinions

Bert: Styling using semantic aria is the goat!
Brittney: Remix will NOT go all in on Web Components
- Austin crim: remix talk - Svemix? Re-svmix? Re-svelte?: Bringing Svelte to Remix Router: https://youtu.be/A8jkJTWacow?t=11096
  - remix-routers/packages/svelte at main · brophdawg11/remix-routers · GitHub
- https://github.com/pixelmund/svemix
Antony: Twitter/Reddit Bookmarks are the worst implemented feature ever - use Pocket

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