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Published inDec 2023
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Tan Li Hau
Tan Li Hau
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Tan Li Hau

Tan Li Hau is a frontend developer at Shopee and a core maintainer of Svelte. He has delivered multiple conference talks and workshops on Svelte. Passionate about sharing his knowledge, Li Hau regularly contributes to the community through blog posts, YouTube videos, and books. He aspires to inspire others to explore and learn about Svelte and other modern web technologies.
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Integrating vanilla JavaScript UI libraries into Svelte

First, we will explore UI libraries that are written in vanilla JavaScript. When we use the phrase vanilla JavaScript, we’re referring to plain JavaScript, or JavaScript in the absence of frameworks or libraries.

There are many reasons a UI library is written in vanilla JavaScript:

  • Performance reasons – it would be much easier to optimize without the abstractions from the web framework
  • The library author’s personal preference to be framework-agnostic
  • The library was created predating any modern web frameworks

For us, vanilla JavaScript UI libraries are great because they do not depend on any specific framework runtime, which is an extra overhead on top of the UI library itself.

For example, if we use a calendar component library that is implemented in React, then besides installing the calendar component library, we would need to install React’s framework as well.

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Tan Li Hau

Tan Li Hau is a frontend developer at Shopee and a core maintainer of Svelte. He has delivered multiple conference talks and workshops on Svelte. Passionate about sharing his knowledge, Li Hau regularly contributes to the community through blog posts, YouTube videos, and books. He aspires to inspire others to explore and learn about Svelte and other modern web technologies.
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