Svelte Training for Angular Programmers Overview
This Svelte course teaches Angular programmers how to set up a Svelte development environment, understand the principles of template reactivity, create static and dynamic pages, and handle forms and lifecycle events. Attendees also learn advanced Svelte topics, including state management, routing, error handling, and asynchronous data. Throughout the course, comparisons between Angular and Svelte are addressed, allowing students to understand the advantages of Svelte. This course is ideal for programmers with a background in Angular looking to expand their skills and learn a new framework.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Understand the fundamentals of Svelte and how it compares to Angular
- Set up a development environment for Svelte and understand how it differs from Angular’s development environment
- Learn about SvelteKit and its features, including routing, server-side rendering, and unit testing
- Create static and dynamic pages using Svelte, understand their structure, and handle images, CSS, and JavaScript content
- Understand the principles of template reactivity in Svelte and how it compares to Angular’s Zone.js and Signals
- Understand component basics and composition in Svelte
- Handle data, forms, and lifecycle events in Svelte
- Work with state management, routing, error handling, and asynchronous data in Svelte
Prerequisites
All students must have Angular, JavaScript, and HTML programming experience. Experience with CSS is helpful, but not required.
Outline
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Introduction
- What is Svelte?
- What problem does Svelte solve?
- Svelte vs. Angular
- Svelte vs. Angular Compiler
- Svelte vs. Angular Directives
- Moving from Angular to Svelte
Development Environment
- Requirements
- SvelteKit vs. Angular CLI
- Svelte Files vs JSX Files
- Svelte Extension for Visual Studio Code
- Run/Debug Svelte App in Visual Studio Code
- Svelte Extension for WebStorm
- Run/Debug Svelte App in WebStorm
SvelteKit Overview
- Vite Tooling
- Development Server
- Routing
- Deployment
- Server-side rendering
- Unit Testing
Getting Started
- Exploring the REPL
- Svelte Layout
- Svelte Page
- Svelte Component
- Svelte Architecture
- Svelte Element Directives
- Compiling Svelte Files
Static Pages
- What is a Static Page?
- What problem do Static Pages solve?
- Static Page File Structure
- Setting Head Content
- HTML Content
- CSS Content
- Comments
- Scoped CSS
- Handling Images
- Hot Module Reloading
- Server Pre-rendering
- Page Routing
Dynamic Pages
- What is a Dynamic Page?
- What problem do Dynamic Pages solve?
- Client-Side Rendering
- Dynamic Page File Structure
- JavaScript Content
- Using Variables
- Using Expressions
- Data Binding
- Class and Style Directive
- Event Binding
- Logic Blocks
- Debug Tag
Template Reactivity
- Principles
- Changing Data through Assignments
- Reactive Statements
- Updating Arrays and Objects
- Compared to Angular’s Zone.js and Signals
Component Basics
- What is a Component?
- What problem do Components solve?
- Svlete Components vs Angular Components
- Calling Components vs HTML Elements
- Compared to Template Rules for Component Selectors
- Component File Structure
- Component Props
- Component Events
- Compared to Angular Inputs and Outputs
Component Composition
- What is Component Composition?
- What problem does it solve?
- Nested Components
- Passing Data to Child Components
- Handling Events and Receiving Data from Child Components
- Component Tree Best Practices
Event Handling
- Event Handling Element Directives
- DOM Events
- Adding Event Handlers
- In-line Handlers
- Event Modifiers
- Dispatching Component Events
- Forwarding Events
Data binding
- Top-down data binding by default
- Communication with props and events
- Using two-way data binding
Forms
- HTML Form Element
- Named Form Actions
- Form Validation
- Form Submission
- Progressive Enhancement
Lifecycle
- Mount
- Destroy
- Before Update
- After Update
- Tick
- Compared to Angular useEffect Hook
State Management
- Stores
- Writable Stores
- Auto-subscriptions
- Readable Stores
- Derived Stores
- Custom Stores
- Store Bindings
- Page Store
- Navigation Store
- Updated Store
Routing
- What is Routing?
- What problem does Routing solve?
- Compared to Angular’s Router
- Pages
- Layout
- Route Parameters
- API Routes
Errors and Redirects
- Handling Errors and Redirects
- Error Pages
- Fallback Errors
- Redirects Compared to Angular Router’s Redirects
Asynchronous Data
- Promises compared to RxJS
- Promises & async/await
- Fetching data from a REST API
- Subscriptions
- Stores
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Svelte training students receive comprehensive courseware covering all topics in the course. Courseware is distributed via GitHub in the form of documentation and extensive code samples.
Software Requirements
Students need a free, personal GitHub account to access the courseware and permission to install .NET SDK, Node.js, and Visual Studio Code on their computers. They also need permission to install NuGet Packages, NPM Packages and Visual Studio Extensions. If students are unable to configure a local environment, a cloud-based environment can be provided.
