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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 31/08/2026

Yes, that's precisely what the project provides

Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 18/08/2026

I can't believe how good the Symbiote Native docs are. They just added support for writing mobile apps in Svelte and the docs are already fully fleshed out! docs.symbiote-native.dev

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SymbioteNative — native apps for every framework

SymbioteNative lets React, Vue, or Angular drive real native iOS and Android views through stock React Native's Fabric renderer — one core, N adapters.

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 09/08/2026

For making mobile apps using the React Native renderer and native libraries

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Svelte Society @sveltesociety.dev · 27/07/2026

Svelte Summit tickets are coming in the next few days 🎟️ Join the launch list and we’ll email you a discount code when they go live. See you in Ljubljana on November 19–20. → sveltesummit.com/ticket-updates

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Ticket Launch Updates | Svelte Summit Ljubljana 2026

Join the Svelte Summit ticket list for the sales date, discount code, and program news.

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NativeScript @nativescript.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

First peek at Svelte 5 + NativeScript 🚀 Big thanks to @paolo.ricciuti.me, @svelte.dev, @syntax.fm and @mainmatter.com

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TinyBase @tinybase.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

🎉 We're excited to finally announce TinyBase v8.1 - the one with native Svelte 5 support. We've got Svelte demos, guides, and a getting-started tool. Links below! This was fun and we want to give a huge shout out to the @svelte.dev community for being so helpful and supportive!

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Ilja @fubits.dev · 17/03/2026

Bar so tiny you need glasses for SvelteKit

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 17/03/2026

It's getting smaller in SvelteKit 3!

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NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli.com · 14/03/2026

Token efficiency of many frameworks vs svelte 5 as baseline

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 12/03/2026

The Svelte CLI does a lot of this. svelte.dev/packages is also worth checking out!

svelte.dev

Packages • Svelte

Packages for your Svelte and SvelteKit apps

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 09/03/2026

One thing I thought might be cool would be to make some of the functionality live in plugins. E.g. the Slack library pulls in 115 dependencies, but if you're not using the Slack notification feature then you probably don't need them npmgraph.js.org?q=@slack/bolt

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 08/03/2026

I just took my first brief look at the OpenClaw repository and I was shocked. 5,000 open PRs, 500 dependencies, 250 security issues! 😱 I can't imagine trying to manage a project that gets so popular so quickly.

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Simon H @dummdidumm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Who here is on Svelte 4 yet? Curious to hear what is stopping you from upgrading to Svelte 5, and if we can make things any easier here.

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 27/02/2026

You will need to upgrade to `@sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte` version 7 when upgrading to version 8. Minimal code changes should be required and would be covered in the Vite migration guide as @fubits.dev mentioned

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 27/02/2026

SvelteKit 2 now fully supports Vite 8 SvelteKit 3 will require it - giving additional optimizations and functionality. E.g. SvelteKit 3 will use @rolldown.rs hook filters to spend more compilation time in rust and less in JavaScript. And SvelteKit 3 adapters use only rolldown without esbuild

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 18/02/2026

Me too! It's "ski week" here in the US and I've made my first visit to Idaho

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 14/02/2026

Remote functions will be the biggest game changer The Vite environment API and Cloudflare + Netlify work may enable adapters to be used in development, which will be big if you're using platform-specific stuff with those adapters

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 14/02/2026

A big one will be adopting Vite's new environment API. The teams from Cloudflare and Netlify are really actively contributing and those adapters will get more powerful. Lots of work is happening on remote functions. Requiring a newer version of Node for fewer and newer dependencies

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 13/02/2026

Starting to merge PRs for SvelteKit 3! A long road ahead, but excited to get started! github.com/sveltejs/kit...

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chore: enter pre-release mode for SvelteKit 3 by benmccann · Pull Request #15302 · sveltejs/kit

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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 29/01/2026

Happy to report that the Chatto development instance is now available for testing. Go nuts (but not too nuts, k?)

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Chatto Dev Instance

The development instance of Chatto, the lean, self-hostable chat app. Come try the latest builds and hang with the team.

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 07/02/2026

The Immich photo manager is written in Svelte!

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Elliott Johnson @ell.iott.dev · 04/02/2026

It's official, you can now get paid up to $10,000 for finding security issues in Svelte and SvelteKit! Big thanks to both the security team at Vercel and the Svelte maintainers' group for coming together to make this possible. Learn more: vercel.com/blog/the-ver...

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The Vercel OSS Bug Bounty program is now available - Vercel

Vercel is opening its open source software bug bounty program to the public for researchers find vulnerabilities and make OSS safer

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 27/01/2026

I haven't heard the phrase "reward early, punish late" before. Would you be able to share an example of what the API is now vs what you'd like it to be?

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 24/01/2026

npmjs.com used to link to the package directory when it was contained in a sub-directory of a monorepo. It no longer does and makes me so angry that they made the UI purely worse when they changed it

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 23/01/2026

One of these is not like the others. I believe `$lib` should work as I demonstrated because it's just a Typescript alias. `$app` and `$env` however are Vite virtual modules and won't work without Vite unfortunately.

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 21/01/2026

Makes sense. I just tested and didn't have any issues using `$lib` though: github.com/benmccann/sv...

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 21/01/2026

Why is adding a cookie messy?

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 21/01/2026

For the playwright one, are you talking about playwright core or their experimental component tests. If the former, can you give an example of what you're trying to accomplish? If the latter, I'd recommend not using it as they have invested very little into making it work well

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 21/01/2026

For the last one, do you mean from handle? If so, you can do a redirect in the handle hook. I'm on mobile and not looking at the docs to see the easiest way, but at the very least you should be able to return a Response with Location header.

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Lars @webpro.nl · 18/01/2026

✂️ Knip v5.82.0 is out → Improved support for @svelte.dev + new SvelteKit plugin → In the Editor Extension, quickfix can directly install missing dependency (thanks @alexanderkaran.bsky.social) Enjoy your Sunday 🫖 ☀️

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 19/01/2026

Check out Young the Giant if you haven't heard them!

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 17/01/2026

What were the hardest parts?

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patak @patak.cat · 12/01/2026

Every time you update your dependencies and see that your deps tree gets slimmer, there is a high chance you're enjoying the relentless work of James or other folks from the @e18e.dev community that he inspired to get into action. Consider sponsoring him if you care about the JavaScript ecosystem.

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 12/01/2026

Maybe you'd know who does?

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 06/01/2026

Anything you liked or disliked about each of the solutions?

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Ben McCann @benmccann.com · 06/01/2026

I had a contact on the Chrome team to share feedback about new browser features with, so if you ever want to take the time to suggest new APIs to them or provide other feedback let me know and I can connect you

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