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+title: A growing community
+description: The Svelte community keeps on growing. Here's what's been happening over the past year.
+author: Johan Ronsse
+authorURL: https://twitter.com/wolfr_2_
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+It's been a year since the release of Svelte 3, and over the year, a lot has happened in terms of community. In this post, I am collecting some highlights of the past year, from a community perspective.
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+I am sure you are probably pretty tired of exponential graphs by now, but here is the interest in Svelte as measured by Github stars over time.
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+<img src="/blog/graph.png" style="max-width: 100%;">
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+If you like Svelte and want to support it - give it a star [here](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte). If there was ever a measurement of popularity, it's stars on Github, isn't it?
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+(BTW, if you want to see the interactive version of that chart, look [here](https://star-history.t9t.io/#sveltejs/svelte))
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+* Right after our last post, Rich's talk [Rethinking Reactivity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdNJ3fydeao) got a lot of people excited about Svelte. He followed this talk up with [Computer, build me an app](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqt6YxAZoOc) and [The return of write less, do more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzX4aTRPzno).
+* Near the end of last year, Svelte was a rising star in 2019's [State of JS](https://2019.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/).
+* Multiple events have been coordinated under the Svelte Society banner. There's been 4 events in New York, an event in Stockholm, two in Amsterdam and an event in Russia (with over 100 people!).
+  * A lot of these have videos of the talks, which you can find on the Svelte Society's [Twitter](https://twitter.com/sveltesociety) page.
+  * Sadly, some events had to be cancelled in recent weeks due to COVID-19.
+* Svelte.js was talked about a lot in the overall development community. Ryan Atkinson's post [Why Svelte](https://github.com/feltcoop/why-svelte) became #1 on Hacker News.
+* A [community site](https://svelte-community.netlify.com/) was built, with a listing of events, tools & resources and code that you can use
+* Super recently, Svelte was featured in [Wired Magazine](https://www.wired.com/story/javascript-framework-puts-web-pages-diet/).
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