Would you like some webpack'y help?

[TheLarkInn]

Hey @Rich-Harris!!!

This looks pretty neat, I noticed general output from the REPL was globally stuff. I haven't dove deep enough to learn more about svelte (maybe I should). Regardless, I'm sure you will have at least a few requests for webpack'y things, so we are devoted to helping you out in those regards. Let me know if we can be of assistance (if even needed).

[TheLarkInn]

This could also serve as a collection of ideas/features that could be leveraged. (IE vue has .vue templates for webpack etc. does a .svelte template defeat the simplicity purpose?, etc)

[Rich-Harris]

Thanks for the offer!

There definitely needs to be a svelte-loader plugin, I was going to get round to it eventually but I'd love some help on that front. It's pretty straightforward, the equivalent Rollup plugin is here – the compiler can generate ES modules or AMD, CJS, IIFE, UMD, so it should have everything we need out-of-the-box.

Want me to create a sveltejs/svelte-loader repo and add you as an admin?

Re .vue – I started out with .svelte files instead but I settled on .html as the preferred extension instead (though the Rollup plugin accepts either). It's just easier to get syntax highlighting and linting that way, no fussing around – and it's not just your editor, it's sourcemaps in your devtools as well. We've been doing that for years with Ractive .html components, and it works well.

[TheLarkInn]

Want me to create a sveltejs/svelte-loader repo and add you as an admin?

Yes! Although it may not be a immediate implementation at least it's an official medium that I can even enlist a few folks already interested in implementing as well. If you already have a rollup plugin, like you said, it should be pretty straight forward.

It's pretty straightforward, the equivalent Rollup plugin is here – the compiler can generate ES modules or AMD, CJS, IIFE, UMD, so it should have everything we need out-of-the-box.

Awesome, I'll check the plugin! Looking forward to help with this.

[Rich-Harris]

Youdaman! Here's the repo, have sent you an invite: https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte-loader

No worries if it doesn't happen straight away, as I say it's on my TODO list anyway – I've just never written a Webpack loader before so it might take me a while 😀

[TheLarkInn]

No sweatsky. Learning opportunity ftw!

[nikku]

I created nikku/svelte-loader and would be happy to contribute it.

[nikku]

We got svelte-loader released now. This issue can be closed.

[TheLarkInn]

Awesome work guys!!! 👏🏼👏🏼