Svelte Runes: Are they the answer to Svelte's magic problem? Don't get me wrong. Svelteis a great framework. It uses its compiler to augment vanilla JS syntax with reactivity and state. But that compiler magic is also a problem. Why? We’ll dive into that in a second.

Because to solve that problem, the Svelte team is leaning into the magic, not shying away from it, with a new feature coming in Svelte 5: Runes.

Runes use the function syntax to provide more expressive reactive magic.

What are Runes? Are they making Svelte more magical? Or is Svelte becoming un-svelte-like? Do Runes make Svelte more like… well, the framework which must not be named?

What does this mean for the future of Svelte?

We’ll look into all that and more. To understand all that, we first need to understand the problem Runes are trying to solve.

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