How to Stay Up to Date in Svelte

Svelte Ecosystem News

experimental RSS feed

for package updates see svelte-changelog.dev

Context

The Svelte|Kit ecosystem is growing faster than ever and it might be a bit tough to keep up with the changes. However, plenty of resources with different ways to “lazy” monitor them exist. Since I happen to re-share the same links over and over again, I wanted to write them up (similar to my CSS, HTML, and Accessibility list).

A cool RSS reader app I like (iOS / MacOS) is Reeder.

Current up-to-date resources

Svelte async, remote functions, SvelteKit 3

• Milestone trackers for Svelte 5 and SvelteKit 3
• Svelte async (await)
  • documentation
  • RFC
  • PR with notes
• SvelteKit async SSR
  • documentation
  • PR with notes & important caveats
• SvelteKit remote functions
  • documentation
  • RFC
  • official Stream: Introducing SvelteKit Remote Functions
  • official Stream: SvelteKit Remote Functions tips: Auth guards, managing async, query.batch
  • official Podcast episode:
    • Svelte Radio: Remote Functions with Simon Holthausen (also on YouTube Podcasts)

General

• Svelte 5 migration guide (still being updated): https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/v5-migration-guide
• Tan Li Hau on the Svelte 5 compiler https://lihautan.com/compile-svelte-5-in-your-head
• Matia’s comprehensive Svelte 5 tutorial (constantly updated):
  • article: https://joyofcode.xyz/learn-svelte
  • video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2MhkPtBWs4
• Scott Spence’ “Sveltest” - very extensive suite of Svelte 5 and SvelteKit testing patterns (incl. MCPs, llms.txt): https://sveltest-917.pages.dev/
• detailed breakdown of migrating a React app to Svelte 5 by David Peng: https://sveltejobs.com/blog/incremental-migration-of-a-production-react-app-to-svelte-5
• Learn with Jason - Stream with Rich Harris on async Svelte: https://codetv.dev/series/learn-with-jason/s8/asynchronous-svelte
• 2024 Advent of Svelte is still the best overview of last year’s Xmas sprint: https://svelte.dev/blog/advent-of-svelte

Daily

• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/svelte
• Bluesky
  • Paolo‘s Svelte Feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paolo.ricciuti.me/feed/svelte-feed
    • also mirrored to Discord channel #bluesky
  • Scott’s Svelte Starter Pack: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/did:plc:nlvjelw3dy3pddq7qoglleko/3l6ucetngs423
  • Svelte Society: https://bsky.app/profile/sveltesociety.dev
  • Svelte: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b6gbde64ngpelprsvnphc2l2
• Reddit
  • r/sveltejs channel (almost 50K members): https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/
  • [less active] r/SvelteKit channel: https://www.reddit.com/r/SvelteKit/
• Nerdy / hard-core
  • probably obvious: GitHub issues for Svelte and SvelteKit
  • svelte-changelog.dev - parses and aggregates release notes / changelogs for Svelte, SvelteKit and all other official Svelte libraries
  • releases
    • GitHub releases (and tags) have RSS feeds (by appending .atom):
      • Svelte releases (Atom): https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/releases.atom
      • SvelteKit releases (Atom): https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/releases.atom
      • to monitor GitHub releases with notifications you can also use newreleases.io
  • with changedetection.io you can monitor for plain text changes and also set up notifications, e.g. with a Telegram bot
    • llms.txt - laziest way to identify changes to the Svelte documentation
    • currently I’m monitoring the docs for Remote Functions and async expressions

here’s what using newreleases.io and changedetection.io with Telegram bots can look like:

Weekly

• “This Week in Svelte” (Stream): https://www.youtube.com/@SvelteSociety/streams
• Svelte Radio (back again since September 2025): https://www.svelteradio.com/episodes
• Svelte Society Newsletter: Weekly summary of new submissions to the community-curated collection on the new Svelte Society website (articles, libraries, demos, updates, jobs). Subscribe on the website.

Monthly

• official Svelte blog: https://svelte.dev/blog
  • RSS Feed: https://svelte.dev/blog/rss.xml
    • as a Newsletter: The (Unofficial) Svelte JS Newsletter by Dani Sandoval

Other

• Svelte Society - Local Chapters (Meetups, Events, etc.): https://guild.host/svelte-society/network:
• some local Svelte meetups are on Luma: https://lu.ma/6esij4l8
• Svelte Summit (~twice a year)
  • Website: https://www.sveltesummit.com/
  • Recordings / Streams: https://www.youtube.com/@SvelteSociety/playlists
• Mainmatter’s Svelte|Kit Newsletter (scroll to the bottom): https://mainmatter.com/services/workshops/svelte-and-sveltekit/

Did I miss a resource? Ping me on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/fubits.dev), Discord (ilja | fubits) or send me an email