description: Slot forwarding fixes, SvelteKit for faster local development, and more from Svelte Summit
author: Daniel Sandoval
authorURL: https://desandoval.net
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BLURB SUMMARIZING WHAT'S NEW...
"What's new in Svelte" series! We'll try to make this a monthly blog post in which you'll find out about new features, bug fixes, and a showcase of Svelte projects from around the community.
Welcome back to the "What's new in Svelte" series! This month, we're covering new features & bug fixes, last month's Svelte Summit and some stand-out sites and libraries...
## New features
1.
## New features & impactful bug fixes
**What's going on in Sapper?**
Any updates here?
1. Destructuring Promises now works as expected by using the `{#await}` syntax
2. Slot forwarding (released in 3.29.0) should no longer hang during compilation (**3.29.3**, [Example](https://svelte.dev/repl/29959e70103f4868a6525c0734934936?version=3.29.3))
3. Better typings for the `get` function in `svelte/store` and on lifecycle hooks (**3.29.1**)
**What's going on in Sapper?**
## Impactful bug fixes
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Sapper also got some new types in its `preload` function, along with fixes to `preload` links in exported sites. Route layouts got a few fixes too - including ensuring CSS is applied to nested route layouts. You can also better organize your files now that extensions with multiple dots are supported. (**0.28.10**)
## Coming up
- Rich Harris demoed the possible future of local Svelte development in a talk titled "Futuristic Web Development" at last month's [Svelte Summit](https://sveltesummit.com/). If you're interested in built-in Server-Side Rendering, modern Hot Module Reloading, or how slots make consistent styling easy across pages, [check out the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfdtmcZ4d0).
For all the features and bugfixes see the CHANGELOGs for [Svelte](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) and [Sapper](https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
For all the features and bugfixes see the CHANGELOG for [Svelte](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) and [Sapper](https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
## [Svelte Summit](https://sveltesummit.com/) was Svelte-tacular!
- Rich Harris demoed the possible future of Svelte development in a talk titled "Futuristic Web Development". The not-yet-public project is called SvelteKit (name may change) and will bring a first-class developer experience and more flexibility for build outputs. If you want to get the full sneak-peek, [check out the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfdtmcZ4d0).
- 18 speakers made the best of the conference's virtual format... From floating heads to seamless demos, Svelte developers from every skill level will find something of interest in this year's [YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8bMgX1kyZThM1sbYCoWdTcpiYysJsSeu)
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## Svelte Showcase
## Community Showcase
- [Svelte Lab](https://sveltelab.app/) showcases a variety of components, visualizations and interactions that can be acheived in Svelte. You can click into any component to see its source or edit it, using the site's built-in REPL
- [svelte-electron-boilerplate](https://github.com/hjalmar/svelte-electron-boilerplate) is a fast way to get up and running with a Svelte app built in the desktop javascript framework, Electron
- [React Hooks in Svelte](https://github.com/benflap/tabler-icons-svelte) showcases examples of common React Hooks ported to Svelte.
- [gurlic](https://gurlic.com/) is a social network and internet expirement that is super snappy thanks to Svelte
- [Interference 2020](https://interference2020.org/) visualizes reported foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. elections. You can learn more about how it was built in [YYY's talk at Svelte Summit]()
- [jitsi-svelte](https://github.com/relm-us/jitsi-svelte) lets you to easily create your own custom Jitsi client by providing out-of-the-box components built with Svelte
- [Ellx](https://ellx.io/) is part spreadsheet, part notebook and part IDE. It's super smooth thanks to Svelte 😎
- [This New Zealand news site](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-2020-latest-results-party-vote-electorate-vote-and-full-data/5CFVO4ENKNQDE3SICRRNPU5GZM/) breaks down the results of the 2020 Parliamentary elections using Svelte
- [Budibase](https://github.com/Budibase/budibase) is a no-code app builder, powered by Svelte
- [Sveltyjs](https://github.com/relm-us/sveltyjs) combines the collaborative, local-first technology of Yjs with the power of Svelte to enable multiple users across the internet to stay in sync.
- [Svelt-yjs](https://github.com/relm-us/svelt-yjs) combines the collaborative, local-first technology of Yjs with the power of Svelte to enable multiple users across the internet to stay in sync.
- [tabler-icons-svelte](https://github.com/benflap/tabler-icons-svelte) is a Svelte wrapper for over 850 free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for you to use in your web projects.
Daniel Sandoval
5 years ago