Rodney Lab Newsletter — November 2023Rodney Lab Newsletter — November 2023
❤️ Svelte 5 #
Svelte 5’s Preview release got announced this month. This is the first fully-featured release since Svelte 3, and well worth the wait. The headline feature is Runes, a new way to handle reactivity in Svelte, which will be easy to get used to if you already know React or have seen Leptos fine-grained reactivity. As well as runes, Svelte 5 brings speed improvements and better TypeScript support. See Matia’s video for a fantastic summary (link opens in YouTube) of all the new features.
There’s more Svelte news: Zed, the new blazing fast text editor (with, optional, Vim key-bindings) now supports Svelte!
🧑🏽💻 Follower Feedback — Fetch in SvelteKit #
Still, one of the most watched videos on the Rodney Lab blog site is on using fetch in SvelteKit. We see how you can use fetch in the route handler server file, as well as in the Svelte template file. The video includes examples of server-side and client-side data retrieval using the JavaScript Fetch API.
📢 Fun Finds #
- Rust GUI Tooling egui — I have mentioned building a console-based app as a way to get a gentle introduction to Rust a few times. There is another alternative, which is also relatively accessible to Rust beginners — build a GUI app using egui. egui is a pure-Rust immediate mode GUI app builder, inspired by Dear ImGui from the C++ world. It is used for games back-ends and also, portable desktop apps, like the Nostr client, Gossip. I created a Cistercian clock app, just to try it out, and loved it! Clone the egui template repo and start building your interface. The egui web demo has links to example code, if you need more inspiration.
- Tooling — git-stack: I mentioned Graphite in a previous issue as tooling for stacking your git commits for a potential productivity boost, using an alternative git workflow. git-stack is an open-source alternative to Graphite, and has the added bonus that you do not need to give the app access to your GitHub account to use it. Built in Rust, it is reliable with only a handful of new commands to learn.
- Organization appflowy — Cross-platform and privacy-friendly app, which offers similar features to Notion (Kanban, Markdown notes, tables, calendars etc). I find it convenient that you can use it offline. You can’t sync online yet with appflowy though, and Anytype is another open-source alternative, which does offer online syncing.
👋🏽 Until next time! #
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