This Week in Svelte, Ep. 134 — Changelog, convex-sveltekit YouTube video by Svelte Society

I'll make an appearance on This Week in Svelte, talking a bit about Convex and Svelte. See you there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHV7...

I’ll take a deep look, it sounds very interesting. I tried to build all of this myself, not that easy

Yes indeed. And quick tip, you can also override that setting with the environment variables (if you work in a team and don’t want to force a key binding to the others)

I’d also say attach. I disabled the inspector while trying new shortcuts last week, it drove me nuts in a few minutes.

Great talk! I’m very hyped

Added better auth to this Convex - SvelteKit adapter.

Results at work are just amazing, such a smooth app I’m building.

Working with MutationObserver as well today, in svelte 5 though. Slight benefit with the @attach va onMount. I always feel clever when I use these nice browser APIs

A little bit yes. I haven’t used firebase in years. Best difference for me: there is no security rules. It’s just typescript. It feels a lot more flexible. But it’s hard to describe. The offering is very unique

It’s a very unique take on database, or even a backend.

It’s real time by default, you declare everything in typescript.

There is a bit of learning curve to get use to that mental model, but I think it’s a very interesting product

I'd love to! 🧡 Give me some time to iron this out

PS: On the demo page, it often shows a 500 on first load 😅 I need to fix that

It's experimental. Already testing it at Cobl. And honestly, it's the DX I wished existed when I started using both.
Feedback very welcome.

This idea stuck in my head for months. Every time I wired up a @convex.dev query in @svelte.dev, the same thought — there has to be a way to make this feel native.
SvelteKit's transport hook turned out to be the missing piece.

Venn diagram, "SvelteKit enjoyers" on the left, "Convex believers" on the right, "convex-sveltekit" in between

Convex reactivity + SvelteKit DX + SSR.

Pick three

github.com/axel-rock/convex-sveltekit

Because it’ll be quick to build, and come with nice features (real time, literally better auth)

It’s not rebuilding for the sake of rebuilding. Or product is about 3 years old. AI was barely a thing back then. I’m capitalising on the learnings, and betting on the benefits of a clean slate. But I need to move fast to prove my point.

I’m really grateful: I’m given “carte blanche” to show my company what my vision of a great tech stack is. That @convex.dev / Autumn / Better Auth hackathon paying off, for them, and for me. I know exactly what to do, it’ll blow everyone’s mind

A new SvelteKit job offer caught my attention. This is in Finland (I love Finland 🇫🇮) very cool stack and great salary. I already have my dream job, otherwise I’d apply in a heartbeat. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

I share the pain of the .env as well. I think I’ll try something like Infisical

It’s scary, but I got better output working like that recently. I have a big big thing in working on for over a week, and I haven’t really looked at the code yet. I plan to. But not micromanaging on Cursor has helped getting sh*t done a lot.

{@const active = page.url.pathname === href}
<a
{href}
class:border={active}

I think page.route.id should work

Maybe you use it in a way that makes in non-reactive (within a state, not a derived).

Want to share more code?

I am, not even jokingly, talking to Clawdbot about my personal life, while I let cursor build a vibe coding tool. Ain't that meta?

I always love seeing Svelte job offers. I might start sharing interesting ones.

Looking at the offers helps understand where Svelte is in the landscape. Décathlon is one of the biggest French company often hiring Svelte devs.

Who else is building with Svelte?

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Hey there 👋 Seeing you show up on my screen because I follow the Svelte feed 🧡

I was like : “Cool post, SvelteKit and creative coding, that’s my jam. Who wrote that?” And 🤯

I’ll be super happy to jump onboard day 1 as well. I feel like 2026 will be a good year for Svelte DX and tools. This + full Zed support (mostly a port of that amazing VS Code extension) are my highest tech expectations. Techspectations ?

Ran into this over the weekend as well

They are really cool. I even hope they’ll manage to bring the same DX to some client side code. It’s a really impressive feature.

Not an expert, but I think libraries without tree shaking/ESM tend to snowball quite a lot.

Having `require` or `import * from`, is a big warning for me

Last minute gift idea for devs and indie hackers: a gift card for a domain.

Just did it manually this week ^^ good to know for next time.