enhance.dev VS SvelteKit

We are excited to present our non-trivial learning application, Enhance Movies, designed to highlight the exceptional web development experience you get from Enhance. Our movies app is built with Enhance and The Movie Database API. With a strong focus on simplicity, performance, progressive enhancement, and offline local development capabilities, this application is set to transform your understanding of what can be done by focusing on the web platform.

Those of you who’ve visited the Enhance website recently may have noticed a big change: we launched our first proper landing page! Although this project was primarily my baby over the last couple months, a lot of other folks were involved — from the stellar (and heartwarming) design & illustrations by Dani Raskovsky, to art and content direction by our very own kj, and additional ideas and feedback from the rest of the Begin team. We’re all thrilled to have this project out in the world, and we hope you’re as delighted as we are with it.

Enhance is relatively new, even compared to some of the newer tools we're talking about in this post, having been released in August 2022. It is an application framework that supports server-side rendering via Lambda functions.

Once you’re familiar with the basics (or if you are already and want to take them further), Web Components offer a standards based methodology for creating custom reusable components. As previously mentioned, Web Components require JavaScript to run in the browser by default, and their class based interface can take some getting used to. Enhance, our HTML first framework, steps around this issue by providing you with a standards compliant way to render custom elements on the server, only requiring you to interface with the Web Components JavaScript API when progressive enhancement is called for. Plus, we’ve got a really cute mascot. Give Enhance a try today!

There are so many remarkable new approaches like Astro, Qwik, 11ty and Enhance built around HTML-first promise that leverages the platform. If you decide to try out Enhance, please let us know what you think, as we’d love the feedback. Follow us on Mastodon and join our Discord.

In Part 1 of this series we covered the HTML first solution to uploading files. In this we have made some small improvements with JavaScript. The full example repository with the code in this post can be found here: https://github.com/ryanbethel/thumbnail-upload-example. Try out enhance.dev for your next project. It has pretty much everything you need to build a functional web app.

To solve the scroll jumping we can monitor the scrollTop setting for the sidebar and restore that location if we reload the page. Enhance.dev uses custom elements to build reusable components. The is one of those components. One of the benefits of custom elements is that we can easily attach JavaScript progressive enhancement behavior in a script tag defining that element.

https://enhance.dev is really powerful. Can do **way** more than a lot of the current frameworks with much less code.

Svelte Kit for the fullstack framework It has first class support for Cloudflare Pages Svelte is a very elegant framework, and Svelte Kit is a very good meta-framework for Svelte. Svelte was probably the reason that…

This AI-powered Story Card Maker is built as a SvelteKit application with Typescript. Using Flowbite Svelte component library, the whole application was laid out. The layout for the Story Card (emulating the size of a postcard - 4" x 3") is created as an HTML Canvas using Fabric.js.

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These adapters, for example, were built by the community: https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/tree/master/packages/adapter-vercel https://github.com/nuxt/vercel-builder If somebody builds a working one for Angular Universal, we will gladly add it to our Framework Presets → https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/deployments/build-step#framework-preset.

UPDATE: If you liked this project and are curious to see what it might look like as a SvelteKit app, check out this blog post by Tim Smith where he converts this existing app over.

I've played around with several platforms in the last year or so. I've landed on the following setup that works very well for me and ticks all your boxes:

A SvelteKit[0] app hosted on Cloudflare pages. The repo is hosted on GitHub and hooked up to the Cloudflare Pages app [1]. On PRs, I get preview environments. On merge, the changes get deployed to my "production" website. I write blog posts and other content in markdown, which is then processed by mdsvex[2] with very minimal setup.

Mostly, my requirements were more focused around getting the actual framework, hosting, etc. out of my way so that I could focus on writing. Gatsby and Next.js were too configuration heavy and turned me off once I scratched beyond the surface.

[0] https://kit.svelte.dev/

Behind the scenes is a simple Sveltekit-powered server function to fetch a Spotify client token then find a user's recommendation playlist and its track information. A Deno edge function to performs this data fetch and renders server-side Svelte.

It’s 2024, and you are about to start a new project. Do you reach for React, a framework you know and love or do you look at one of the other hot new frameworks like Astro, Enhance, 11ty, SvelteKit or gasp, plain vanilla Web Components?

From part 0 to part 4, we built out CryptoFlow's backend service. Though we can quickly use Postman, VS Code's ThunderClient or automated tests to see the endpoints working easily, this isn't all we want. We want to actively interact with the backend service via some intuitive user interface. Also, a layman wouldn't be able to "consume" the service we've built in the last parts. This article introduces building out the user interface of the system. We will be using SvelteKit, a framework that streamlines web development, and TailwindCSS, the utility-first CSS framework. Let's dig in!