svelte app

This is a project template for Svelte apps with Tailwind CSS support. It lives at https://github.com/laosb/svelte-tailwind-template. Forked from official Svelte app template.

This template has PurgeCSS preconfigured, and use Yarn instead of NPM for packaging. Prettier has been configured to use a different style from Svelte official for my personal convinience.

TypeScript support is added and I encourage you to use TypeScript and the entry point has been changed into TypeScript.

To create a new project based on this template using degit:

npx degit laosb/svelte-tailwind-template svelte-app
cd svelte-app

Note that you will need to have Node.js installed.

Get started

Install the dependencies...

cd svelte-app
yarn install

...then start Rollup:

yarn dev

Navigate to localhost:5000. You should see your app running. Edit a component file in src, save it, and reload the page to see your changes.

By default, the server will only respond to requests from localhost. To allow connections from other computers, edit the sirv commands in package.json to include the option --host 0.0.0.0.

Building and running in production mode

To create an optimised version of the app:

yarn build

You can run the newly built app with npm run start. This uses sirv, which is included in your package.json's dependencies so that the app will work when you deploy to platforms like Heroku.

Single-page app mode

By default, sirv will only respond to requests that match files in public. This is to maximise compatibility with static fileservers, allowing you to deploy your app anywhere.

If you're building a single-page app (SPA) with multiple routes, sirv needs to be able to respond to requests for any path. You can make it so by editing the "start" command in package.json:

"start": "sirv public --single"

Deploying to the web

With now

Install now if you haven't already:

yarn global add now

Then, from within your project folder:

cd public
now deploy --name my-project

As an alternative, use the Now desktop client and simply drag the unzipped project folder to the taskbar icon.

With surge

Install surge if you haven't already:

yarn global add surge

Then, from within your project folder:

yarn build
surge public my-project.surge.sh