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Keyed each blocks

By default, when you modify the value of an each block, it will add and remove items at the end of the block, and update any values that have changed. That might not be what you want.

It's easier to show why than to explain. Click the 'Remove first item' button a few times, and notice that it's removing <Thing> components from the end and updating the value for those that remain. Instead, we'd like to remove the first <Thing> component and leave the rest unaffected.

To do that, we specify a unique identifier for the each block:

{#each things as thing (thing.id)}
	<Thing value={thing.value}/>
{/each}

The (thing.id) tells Svelte how to figure out what changed.