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Packages are great - they bring specific functionality out of the box, without the need to re-invent it yourself. The downside is that each additional package installed into an application creates...

Svelte does not come with a built-in router, and there are good reasons for that. One is to keep the framework lean. Another might be to defer the choice of router to the individual developer. There...

Svelte is my all-time favorite JS framework. Fresh on its heels comes SvelteKit, a framework for generating static sites with Svelte. Just what the doctor ordered. SvelteKit is currently in public...

Downloading and executing an exe file on Windows is safer when it comes with a PGP signature that you can verify. How do you check a PGP signature though? I've always avoided it until...

A very common scenario when building an Electron app is storing user settings/preferences permanently. This can be done in a number of ways, but one of the most robust is to store the settings on...

In this guide I'm going to explain how to deploy a static Svelte site to Netlify. Let's get started. The goal of this exercise is to deploy a simple Todo app from GitHub to Netlify. First, create a...

I host several websites on a Linode VPS, originally provisioned with Laravel Forge. I have long since canceled my Forge subscription, and I do my own maintenance, manually. I may not be the quickest...

Is it wrong to idolize an inanimate object produced by a soulless corporation? Depends on whom you ask. I, for one, feel warm and fuzzy every time I pick up my Mac. The joy it has brought me over the...

SVGX, the Electron-Svelte app I've been working on for close to a year, is finally on Product Hunt. To recap, SVGX is an offline desktop SVG icon & asset manager for designers and developers. I...

Toggling an Electron menu item dynamically is quite simple, though not immediately clear from the official documentation. In an Electron app, the application menu consists of items such as File,...