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SvelteKit 2, new Astro product, and much more! This week in web dev (December 15th, 2023)

Hello friend 👋! I hope you had a great week so far! This week’s web dev news has been slow, but I still managed to find some interesting stories for you! I hope you have a great weekend!

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December 15th, 2023

SvelteKit 2, new Astro product, and much more! This week in web dev (December 15th, 2023)

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SvelteKit 2 was recently released. With support for the newly released Vite 5, and a new feature called “Shallow Routing”, this new release is an important step for the future of Svelte and Sveltekit.

With this release, Svelte 5 was also teased. The new SvelteKit 2 promises a smooth transition to Svelte 5 once released.

The people behind Astro recently teased a new product as part of the Astro ecosystem, called Astro Studio. It is a globally distributed edge data platform, only available for Astro. This means you will be able to set up a dedicated hosted database for your Astro projects.

The system is optional, so you do not need to use it.

The popular Vite testing framework Vitest recently hit a major milestone with the release of v1.0.0. This production-ready release comes after an extensive beta period.

Vitest v1.0.0 contains breaking changes like dropping support for Node.js under version 18. It also has improvements like simplified mocking and snapshot APIs. Code coverage is enabled by default now as well.

Much more has changed, so make sure to take a look at the changelog.

Netlify's latest State of Web Development report outlines several predictions. Some of the predictions are: Composable architectures will go mainstream as the next step after Jamstack as enterprises adopt this flexible approach. Machine learning and AI will strongly influence companies starting digital transformations by changing developer workflows. The Astro framework will continue rapid user growth given its high satisfaction scores in Netlify's survey.