Svelte Countdown

Simple countdown application to try out the Svelte approach of building websites.

About

• The project makes usage of pure CSS and global variables, those can be found at src/App.svelte;
• TypeScript was used to build the application, this can be achieved by running a script that comes with the default template;
• No external libraries other than svelte, rollup and typescript (default ones);

Impressions

The reactive nature of all the variables is really cool, and I doubt any React developer will say otherwise. Still, some things still bother me, for example: the way that you use javascript blocks to dynamically render things, which reminds me a lot of WASM in solutions like Blazor (C#) and can get quite messy pretty fast.

Another thing that I am not a fan of is the way that you must have a section for styles within the rest of the component, something that I always avoid with react to separate things for a better developer experience.

I still find it quite impressive and I'm willing to learn more with time.