Svelte SPA Template

A Svelte Single Page Application Template for simple SPA Apps without using Svelte Kit or Sapper.

New Project

To create a new project based on this template using degit:

npx degit DEVLOPRR/svelte-spa-template svelte-spa-app
cd svelte-spa-app

Note that you will need to have Node.js installed.

Get started

Install the dependencies...

cd svelte-spa-app
npm install

...then start Rollup:

npm run dev

Navigate to localhost:5000. You should see your app running. Edit a component file in src, save it, and reload the page to see your changes.

By default, the server will only respond to requests from localhost. To allow connections from other computers, edit the sirv commands in package.json to include the option --host 0.0.0.0.

If you're using Visual Studio Code we recommend installing the official extension Svelte for VS Code. If you are using other editors you may need to install a plugin in order to get syntax highlighting and intellisense.

Building and running in production mode

To create an optimised version of the app:

npm run build

You can run the newly built app with npm run start. This uses sirv, which is included in your package.json's devDependencies so that the app will work when you deploy to platforms like Heroku.

Using TypeScript

This template comes with a script to set up a TypeScript development environment, you can run it immediately after cloning the template with:

node scripts/setupTypeScript.js

Or remove the script via:

rm scripts/setupTypeScript.js

If you want to use baseUrl or path aliases within your tsconfig, you need to set up @rollup/plugin-alias to tell Rollup to resolve the aliases. For more info, see this StackOverflow question.

Deploying to the web

With Vercel

Install vercel if you haven't already:

npm install -g vercel

Then, from within your project folder:

cd public
vercel deploy --name my-project

With surge

Install surge if you haven't already:

npm install -g surge

Then, from within your project folder:

npm run build
surge public my-project.surge.sh

With GitHub Pages

Make sure you have a github account and you've logged into the account.

Then make a New github repo and name it as follows - username.github.io where username is your github username you're using and make sure your repo is public.

Finally, Upload your build files and after a minute goto username.github.io where username is your github username.

Thanks