# Accelerating Svelte's Development

DevFeed: [Accelerating Svelte's Development](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/accelerating-svelte-s-development-3026.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://svelte.dev/blog/accelerating-sveltes-development>)

Author: Ben McCann

Published: 2022-01-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Svelte blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/svelte-blog.md>)

Topics: [Svelte](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/svelte.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Maintainers](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintainers.md>), [reactive](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactive.md>), [Vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vercel.md>), [Accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/accessibility.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>), [Vite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vite.md>), [VS Code Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vscode-extension.md>), [aurelia](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aurelia.md>), [Embedded Software Dev](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embedded-software-dev.md>)

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## AI overview

Svelte describes its growth as a frontend framework for fast, reactive web apps, alongside the development of SvelteKit for building fully featured applications. The article discusses Rich Harris joining Vercel, the expansion of Svelte's maintainer community, contributions to related tooling, and funding from OpenCollective donations.

## Source excerpt

Svelte is a frontend framework for building fast reactive web apps with less code. If you're new here, check out the tutorial or examples to get a feel for it. Svelte was launched 5 years ago and has come a long way in the time since. In 2021, as usage more than doubled, it was voted the most loved framework with the most satisfied developers in a pair of surveys. Alongside high-profile companies like The New York Times, Apple, Spotify, Square, Rakuten, Bloomberg, Reuters, Ikea, Brave, and countless others, Svelte is used to power everything from hobby projects to embedded systems interfaces. To help developers build fully-featured applications with Svelte without worrying about the hard parts, we've been developing the SvelteKit application framework. We're moving quickly towards a stable 1.0 release with the help of early adopters who have already downloaded SvelteKit almost one million times. Scaling the team Rich Harris, Svelte's creator, has joined Vercel to work on Svelte full-time. We're incredibly excited to have Rich's level of involvement in Svelte increase even more and have him steward Svelte into the future. Svelte has been made possible by the work of a large, dedicated community. Svelte has added numerous core maintainers over the course of the pandemic, including three this past week. In alphabetical order: benmccann - primary maintainer of SvelteKit for much of 2021 bluwy - major contributor across SvelteKit, vite-plugin-svelte, and Vite dominikg - creator of vite-plugin-svelte dummdidumm - maintainer of language-tools, which includes the VS Code extension and svelte-check ehrencrona - contributor to SvelteKit and uses Svelte at work geoffrich - has driven efforts to improve the accessibility of the Svelte site and documentation GrygrFlzr - holds a unique status as a maintainer of both SvelteKit and Vite Halfnelson - creator of svelte-native ignatiusmb - regular SvelteKit contributor especially to TypeScript support jasonlyu123 - maintainer of langu