sbt-svelte: the best way to use Svelte with Playframework

[tanin47]

Hello!

I've made sbt-svelte which I believe is the best way to use Svelte with Playframework because it doesn't require you to run a separate npm process; you'd also store your Svelte files in the natural place, which is /app/assets.

sbt-svelte hooks into Playframework's asset generation mechanism. This means you can just run sbt run, and it just works. All your changes will be automatically detected by Play and compiled.

This requires Webpack though since Play doesn't know how to compile Svelte.

As a side note, I also built sbt-vuefy (for Vue), which utilizes the same mechanism, a few years back, and it has been working well.

I'd love for y'all to try it out.

You can read more about it here: https://tanin.nanakorn.com/main/2023/07/02/use-svelte-with-playframework

You can see the repo here: https://github.com/tanin47/sbt-svelte -- there is a test project inside as well.

Thank you!

[mkurz]

Awesome, thanks for sharing! Would be good to add the project(s) to https://github.com/playframework/playframework/blob/main/documentation/manual/ModuleDirectory.md - can you open a pull request for that?
Great work!

[tanin47]

Thank you for the recommendation. I'll do that.

What is the criteria of adding a project there?

I have another project that I would love to add it there: https://github.com/GIVESocialMovement/play-json-form (an improvement to Play's form). I was hoping to improve Play's form someday but haven't got time haha.

[mkurz]

What is the criteria of adding a project there?

No recommendation, just put it in a section where it fits the most. If the other project(s) are usuable with current stable 2.8.x you can add them as well of course.