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Svelte 5 is out! Who gonna try it?

Yes! Pretty pumped to try out this new release!

I’m trying it; it is an amazing masterpiece of simplicity. I wrote two articles to share the experience:
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<li><a href="https://dev.to/robertobutti/my-first-svelte5-reactive-component-5elc" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Creating your first Svelte5 reactive component</a></li>
<li><a href="https://dev.to/robertobutti/how-to-start-building-your-static-website-with-svelte-and-tailwindcss-hbk" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Building your static website with Svelte, SvelteKit and TailwindCSS</a> (this was an old article, update to Svelte5)</li>
</ul>

I’ve been migrating from 4 to 5. Having the ‘$:’ disappear sucks because it was convenient. On the other hand having runes will make my svelte projects easier to maintain. Having ‘$bindable’, ‘$state’, and ‘$derived’, will help keep track of the codes intent instead of having a bunch of ‘let’ variables floating around.

Already have my sandbox set up and been diving in. I have been learning web dev the past year and Svelte was the framework I chose to dip my toes in. Fell instantly in love. This was right about the time Svelte 5 entered RC.
So in that time, I was surprised that there were features I was excited for. Still new, so some of the runes don’t make complete sense yet.

I really like how props are handled now. Much more clear what’s going on and pretty familiar if you’ve used React in the past. Snippets are nice as well.