From zero to production with SvelteKit

Well, yes and no.

I believe there is still space in the ecosystem for a high-quality and complete SvelteKit course. One that starts with the most basics concepts, and hold your hand as you learn the more advanced features, and how to build and deploy production grade web applications.

Most importantly, Full Stack SvelteKit is very opinionated on some topics. A few examples:

Deployment platform: There are many ways to deploy SvelteKit applications today. From Vercel to Netlify and other PaaS providers. Those are very trivial options, and you can learn how to deploy to those platforms in a few minutes.

PaaS are also excellent options, and I use them regularly both for personal projects and clients projects.

Instead of going this route, for this course, I choose to teach you how to deploy your SvelteKit application as a regular Node.js application on a regular server. We will also use Docker to package our application to make deployment and updates easier.

While this might sound like a daunting task, that's not necessary, I believe that you will learn a lot more by doing it this way. And eventually, you can always move to a PaaS provider if you'd like to.

Databases: Databases are also one area that had numerous innovations and progress in the past few years. These days, with a few clicks, you can easily have a fully managed and scalable relational (or not) database that you can use in your applications. While this is very convenient for large-scale applications, or fast prototyping, I also think there is value in learning in a more naive way.

In this course, we'll use SQLite as our database. And the notions we will learn here can easily be transferred to other relational databases, like MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Finally, for authentication, I've opted to use Lucia auth, that, instead of giving you a drop in solution, gives you the primitives as well the guides to build solid session-based authentication.

The main prerequisite for the course is to have some basic understanding of the Svelte framework. If you are not familiar with Svelte, I recommend you to start with the Svelte tutorial.This will give you a solid foundation to build your applications.

Of course, this assumes that you know how the web works, can find your way around HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

I'm a firm believer that TypeScript makes building web applications easier. So, this course will use Svelte and SvelteKit with TypeScript.

August 2024. You can also leave your email in the form below to be updated about the progress and when the course will be ready.

I initially planned to launch the course during August 2024. But I had to postpone this date due to certain personal life events. The new launch date for the course is October 2024 January 20th, 2025.