svelte/site/content/tutorial/02-reactivity/01-reactive-assignments/text.md

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title: Assignments
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At the heart of Svelte is a powerful system of *reactivity* for keeping the DOM in sync with your application state — for example, in response to an event.

To demonstrate it, we first need to wire up an event handler. Replace line 9 with this:

```html
<button on:click={handleClick}>
```

Inside the `handleClick` function, all we need to do is change the value of `count`:

```js
function handleClick() {
	count += 1;
}
```

Svelte 'instruments' this assignment with some code that tells it the DOM will need to be updated.