Svelte 5 & SvelteKit For Hands-On Modern Web Development

About this course

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. In this course, you'll master modern web development with Svelte 5 and SvelteKit. You'll gain hands-on experience with the latest updates in Svelte 5, enabling you to build interactive web applications. By the end of the course, you'll have a strong understanding of how to leverage the Svelte framework and SvelteKit’s features to create scalable applications. The course begins with an in-depth crash course on Svelte 5, covering the structure of Svelte files, reactivity, passing props, and advanced state management techniques. You'll dive into Svelte's templating language and reactive state system to build dynamic, interactive components with ease. Next, you’ll explore SvelteKit, focusing on routing, server-side data fetching, and creating custom API endpoints. The course provides you with practical skills that will allow you to create modern applications that are optimized for performance and scalability. This course is designed for developers who want to enhance their web development skills with Svelte and SvelteKit. Beginners with basic JavaScript knowledge will benefit from this course, and developers looking to expand their toolkit with modern web development practices will find this course both valuable and engaging.

Course objectives

• enhance web development skills with modern practices
• master Svelte framework capabilities
• create applications optimized for performance