# What's new in Svelte: April 2021

DevFeed: [What's new in Svelte: April 2021](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-new-in-svelte-april-2021-3056.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://svelte.dev/blog/whats-new-in-svelte-april-2021>)

Author: Dani Sandoval

Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Svelte](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/svelte.md>), [Server-side rendering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server-side-rendering.md>), [Framework](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/framework.md>), [Serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/serverless.md>), [Vite](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vite.md>), [TypeScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/typescript.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [npm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/npm.md>), [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser.md>), [P2P](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/p2p.md>)

Tags: [browser](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/browser.md>), [games](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/games.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [libraries](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/libraries.md>), [npm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/npm.md>), [serverless](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/serverless.md>), [ssr](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssr.md>), [svelte](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/svelte.md>), [typescript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/typescript.md>), [vite](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vite.md>)

## AI overview

An April 2021 Svelte update covering the public beta of SvelteKit, slotted components, improvements to Svelte Language Tools, and general availability of vite-plugin-svelte. It also highlights community applications, sites, libraries, tools, and components built with Svelte.

## Source excerpt

Two projects that have been months (even years) in the making have made their way out into the world. SvelteKit is now in public beta and slotted components are now available in Svelte! What's up with SvelteKit? SvelteKit - Svelte's versatile framework for building SSR, serverless applications, or SPAs - is now officially in public beta. Expect bugs! Lots more detail in the latest blog post. Want to know when 1.0 is close? Check out the milestone on github. Want to learn more about how to get started, what's different compared to Sapper, new features and migration paths? Check out this week's episode of Svelte Radio for a deep dive with Antony, Kev and Swyx. New in Svelte & Language Tools Slotted components, including <svelte:fragment slot="..."> lets component consumers target specific slots with rich content (Svelte 3.35.0, Language Tools 104.5.0) Linked editing now works for HTML in Svelte files (Language Tools, 104.6.0) Type definitions svelte.d.ts are now resolved in order, allowing library authors to ship type definitions with their svelte components (Language Tools, 104.7.0) vite-plugin-svelte is available for general use of Svelte in Vite. npm init @vitejs/app includes Svelte options using this plugin. Community ShowcaseApps & Sites Nagato is a task management tool that connects popular time tracking and to-do tools all in one place. type-kana is a quiz app to help you learn ひらがな (hiragana) and カタカナ (katakana), the Japanese syllabaries. Pittsburgh Steps is an interactive map of the more than 800 sets of public outdoor stairways in Pittsburgh, PA. Music Mode Wheels is a website that displays music modes as interactive wheels. Critical Notes helps game masters and players keep track of their roleplaying games campaigns and adventures. Svelte Game of Life is an educational implementation of Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript + Svelte foxql is a peer to peer full text search engine that runs on your browser. Demos, Libraries, Tools & Components svelte-nodegui i