SvelteKit 3 puts heat on Next.js with radical approach to RPCs
Remote functions bring type-safe remote procedure calls right into Web page components
In today's sprawling JavaScript ecosystem, Svelte was designed to be a simpler alternative to the React.js front-end framework, and SvelteKit follows the same path, setting out to be a backend framework like Next.js but with fewer headaches and even better support for dynamic content.
The new-ish SvelteKit 3.0 release candidate includes an experimental feature called remote functions that rethinks how data is delivered to the browser.
“Remote functions make everything else look a bit clunky, including SvelteKit’s load functions and actions,” the project team enthused in the release candidate announcement page.
A slender stack
U.K. journalist Rich Harris, then a graphics editor at the New York Times, released Svelte 1.0in 2016 as a JavaScript component builder that didn’t carry all the boilerplate that lumbered React.js. He needed an easier way to build graphical components for NYT...
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