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+title: A growing community
+description: The Svelte community keeps on growing. Here's a summary of 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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+This graph is only one slice of the pie, 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).
+
+### General
+
+* Right after the last post on this website, 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 [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/). It also received the "Prediction Award" for best upcoming technology.
+* In April, Svelte was featured in [Wired Magazine](https://www.wired.com/story/javascript-framework-puts-web-pages-diet/).
+* 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.
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+### Community projects
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+* A [community site](https://svelte-community.netlify.com/) was built, with a listing of events, tools & resources and code that you can use
+    * This community site will now be re-built. Plans are being discussed in the open on [svelte-society/site](https://github.com/svelte-society/site/).
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+### Libraries
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+* Several UI libraries have been created such as [Svelte Material UI](https://github.com/hperrin/svelte-material-ui), [Svelma](https://github.com/c0bra/svelma) (based on Bulma), and [SvelteStrap](https://github.com/bestguy/sveltestrap) (based on Bootstrap 4)
+* Projects like [Pancake](https://pancake-charts.surge.sh/) and [LayerCake](https://layercake.graphics/) help with building data visualizations and charts in a way that only Svelte can
+* Projects like [Svelte-docs](https://github.com/AlexxNB/svelte-docs/) (a styleguide generator) and [Svench](https://github.com/rixo/svench) (a storybook alternative) provide a way to write documentation for your Svelte components
+* [Routify](https://routify.dev/) is a router for Svelte - and has been getting more popular
+
+### Community events
+
+* An online conference was organized under the Svelte Society banner, which featured 10 talks. Check out the conference website at [sveltesociety.dev](https://sveltesociety.dev/)
+* Multiple real-life events have been coordinated under the Svelte Society banner as well
+    * 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.
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+If you want to stay on top of what is happening in the Svelte world, follow [@sveltejs](https://twitter.com/sveltejs) and [@sveltesociety](https://twitter.com/sveltesociety) on Twitter.
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+You can also join us on the [Discord channel](https://svelte.dev/chat).