SvelteKit Streaming: The Complete Guide

The amount of JavaScript you ship to your users directly impacts your site’s performance. A smaller bundle size means faster initial loading times and an overall snappier experience for end users. In this post, I’ll show you how to analyze your SvelteKit bundle size and optimize it by moving heavy dependencies to the server. Analyzing Bundle...

With the release of Svelte 5 and its new runes syntax, many developers are wondering how to get reliable AI assistance that understands the latest features in Svelte 5 working with ChatGPT, Claude, Continue, Cursor and other tools. The challenge with AI and new frameworks When a new major framework version is released, AI tools often struggle to...

If you’ve been following AI news lately, you might have heard about the “strawberry test”. It’s a simple question that stumps many AI models: How many R’s are in the word “strawberry”? This seemingly easy task highlights some interesting limitations in large language models (LLMs). Prefer a video version of this blog post? Watch below: Why is...

For the past two years, I’ve been on the receiving end of a passive aggressive win-back campaign from Dropbox. The feud originally started when I migrated away from Dropbox and hence canceled my subscription while leaving them saddled with over a terabyte of my data to carry forever, like a camel in the digital desert. After all, why wouldn’t I?...

Watch a video version of this blog post below! Svelte 5 brings a lot of changes, from the new Runes-based syntax to deep reactivity and performance improvements across the board. But one aspect that’s flown under the radar is the massive reduction in bundle size. In my experiments, you can get about 50% decrease in code shipped to users, just by...