Svelte is well loved as a web framework, and now the team is working to take it multi-platform. Svelte’s custom renderers API will enable native apps, terminals, and more to be build with Svelte. Maintainer Paolo Ricciuti joins to explain what it will take, both technically and practically.

00:00 Welcome

00:20 Show Intro and Topic

01:47 Meet Paolo Uti

03:35 React vs Svelte Rendering

06:51 Svelte as a Compiler

07:51 Why Custom Renderers

09:58 How Compilation Works

17:09 Template Optimization Problem

20:26 Fragments Option and Tree Output

23:30 Runtime Strategy and POCs

29:36 Funding and Unifying Runtime

36:45 AI as OSS Leverage

43:51 How to Try the POC

46:57 Wrap Up