From fa2819842265baf75181a964160532d6075553cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Ronsse Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 15:04:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add blog post about community --- .../blog/2020-05-02-a-growing-community.md | 44 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) create mode 100644 site/content/blog/2020-05-02-a-growing-community.md diff --git a/site/content/blog/2020-05-02-a-growing-community.md b/site/content/blog/2020-05-02-a-growing-community.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7520499690 --- /dev/null +++ b/site/content/blog/2020-05-02-a-growing-community.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +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_ +--- + +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. + +This graph is only one slice of the pie, but here is the interest in Svelte as measured by Github stars over time. + + + +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. + +### Community projects + +* 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/). + +### Libraries + +* 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. + +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. + +You can also join us on the [Discord channel](https://svelte.dev/chat). \ No newline at end of file