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Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

Hey everyone, we're excited to share a number of notable improvements rolling out to the Skeleton docs today! This includes content updates, quality of life improvements, and improved styling. View the full list of changes here:
github.com/skeletonlabs...
And view the site here:
www.skeleton.dev

📖 Documentation Updates · skeletonlabs skeleton · Discussion #4076

Hey everyone, today I'm excited to share some notable updates to the Skeleton documentation site. As we came to tail end of the Skeleton v4.0 update, we realized many aspects of the site were not m...

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November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

Happy halloween everyone!

a black and white cartoon of three skeletons dancing in a cemetery with the words `` happy halloween '' .

ALT: a black and white cartoon of three skeletons dancing in a cemetery with the words `` happy halloween '' .

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October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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Josh Nussbaum

@joshnuss.com

Used a Svelte attachment to style <a> when active (ie href matches window.location)

October 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

We're excited to share that Skeleton v4.0 is now available!

- 🆕 5 new components
- 🧩 New composed pattern
- 🎨 Simpler component styling
- 🧱 Extensible component markup
- ⭐ Custom component animations
- 🛠️ Provider pattern for API access

View the full announcement:
github.com/skeletonlabs...

Skeleton v4.0 has launched! 🎉 · skeletonlabs skeleton · Discussion #3920

Hey everyone, Chris here from the Skeleton team. Today we're super excited to share our next major milestone release for Skeleton, version 4.0. Building on the foundation of v3, this update focuses...

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October 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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@joyofcode.xyz

I made a SvelteKit remote functions tutorial!

Learn how to work with data in SvelteKit from fetching data to guarding routes and optimistic UI updates.

Follow along with me as we build Svelte Tricks — a CRUD app using Better Auth and Drizzle ORM.

youtu.be/Ldnmirx0QtI

Learn SvelteKit Remote Functions Tutorial

YouTube video by Joy of Code

youtu.be

October 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

As we prepare for the Skeleton v4 release, we've prepared a new community survey. As always, this is anonymous and does not require a login to complete. Your feedback is invaluable and greatly appreciated!

forms.gle/aS2o3x5fwuMQ...

Skeleton v4 - Community Survey

With Skeleton v4 launching soon, the Skeleton team wanted to take this opportunity to provide a community poll to gather feedback. This will help inform the priorities for the team going forward, and ...

forms.gle

October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

Quick update to the Skeleton v4 RC - we now have three brand new components available:

- DatePicker
- Listbox
- TreeView

We'll link the docs for each below.

Note that we continue to refine our onboarding/migration docs. Expect a new draft tomorrow including CLI instructions!

October 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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Simon Le Marchant

@marchantweb.com

Realizing I never posted this to Bluesky 🫢

✨ Introducing Shaders

A first-of-it's-kind component library for jaw-dropping effects and frontend magic, shipping soon for @vuejs.org, @react.dev & @svelte.dev.

October 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM

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Ben McCann

@benmccann.com

svelte.dev/packages is now live!

It's a convenient and easily discoverable place to find a sampling of high quality packages in the ecosystem. We hope it will give confidence in the Svelte ecosystem to newcomers and help them get started more easily.

Packages • Svelte

Packages for your Svelte and SvelteKit apps

svelte.dev

October 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

Hey folks! Today's we're thrilled to announce the new Skeleton v4 Release Candidate, including 5 key updates to components:

- Composable pattern
- Overhauled styling
- Extensible markup
- Custom animations
- Provider pattern

Full details info here:
github.com/skeletonlabs...

Announcing the Skeleton v4 Release Candidate · skeletonlabs skeleton · Discussion #3844

Hey everyone, Chris here from Skeleton. As you may know, @Hugos68, the team, and I have been hard at work the past few months on the new Skeleton v4 update . This focuses on major updates to the Sk...

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October 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

Awesome work from Sean! Check this out if you're looking for a turnkey solution for charts in your Skeleton project!

Sean Lynch @techniq.dev · Sep 25

📊 LayerChart: CSS-only, simplified integration, Html primitives, and more!

Massive `2.0.0-next.39` release brings:

🎨 CSS-only usage
↔️ Simplified integration (Skeleton, Svelte UX, daisyUI, …)
↪️ REPL compatibility
🏗️ HTML primitives
👆 Improved touch event handling
📦 …more!

details ↓

September 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM

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@joyofcode.xyz

I'm excited to release the Svelte 5 course aimed at new and existing Svelte developers! 🔥

Learn how to make blazing fast web apps with Svelte and understand how it works with hands-on experience.

youtu.be/B2MhkPtBWs4

September 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

Hey folks, today we're happy to share a new monthly update for Skeleton. Today's update cover a number of items related to the upcoming Skeleton v4. Including a means for you to preview and test the new changes right away. As well as a quick peek at our future roadmap.

github.com/skeletonlabs...

Skeleton Update - September 2025 · skeletonlabs skeleton · Discussion #3692

Hey everyone, Chris here from Skeleton. The goal of this post is to highlight the biggest updates that have occurred over the last month, as well as preview any upcoming initiatives. As usual, ther...

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September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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Adam Argyle

@nerdy.dev

gradient.style has finally
- come out of beta
- offers multiple background editing
- is open source

🎉 nerdy.dev/gradient.sty...

a radial gradient shown over a conic gradient of sun rays

a linear gradient shown overtop a radial gradient

a conic gradient on top of another conic gradient

August 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

Hey folks, today we're thrilled to share an early preview of component changes coming in our next major release of Skeleton. These changes are aimed at addressing many of the pain points you've likely encountered using Skeleton over the years.

Full details here:
github.com/skeletonlabs...

Skeleton v4 Early Preview · skeletonlabs skeleton · Discussion #3634

Hey everyone, Chris here from Skeleton. Today the team and I are thrilled to pull back and curtain and share an early hands-on preview for what's coming in Skeleton v4. This will initially focus on...

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August 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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@joyofcode.xyz

I wanted to release the Svelte 5 guide later since I was thinking about interactive examples but here you go if you like reading and I would love your feedback as I work on the video. 😄

joyofcode.xyz/learn-svelte

August 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

Hey folks, here's our latest monthly progress update. This summarizes a number of updates and bugfixes to Skeleton provided over the last few weeks:
github.com/skeletonlabs...

Skeleton Progress Update - August 2025 · skeletonlabs skeleton · Discussion #3624

Hey everyone, Chris here from Skeleton. The goal of this post is to highlight the biggest updates that have occurred over the last month, as well as review any upcoming initiatives. There's a lot t...

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August 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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rich harris

@rich-harris.dev

did a deep dive on what we've been working on and all the stuff it's going to unlock in the near future. found some bugs along the way 🐛

if you're local, ping @vadeem.bsky.social with your talk ideas for the next meetup!

Svelte Society @sveltesociety.dev · Jul 19

This talk is now also available on our YouTube channel — promise.then(...) by @rich-harris.dev. Watch it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-1p...

July 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM

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@joyofcode.xyz

Let's talk about the future of Svelte!

Everyone is excited about the recent async and remote functions proposals, but why? Let's explore how data loading works in Svelte today and what problems they solve.

youtu.be/NhOV9SLbJuk

These Svelte Updates Are Crazy

YouTube video by Joy of Code

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July 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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dominikg

@dominikg.dev

New major release of vite-plugin-svelte is out with support for vite7, rolldown-vite and more.

Happy svelting.

github.com/sveltejs/vit...

July 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM

Skeleton Labs

@skeleton.dev

Here's our new monthly update post regarding our new release today, as well as setting expectations for future updates going forward.

Skeleton Progress Update - June 2025 · skeletonlabs skeleton · Discussion #3591

Hey everyone, Chris here from Skeleton. The goal of this post is to highlight the biggest updates that have occurred over the last month. There's a few notable things in the works, so let's discuss...

github.com

July 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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Wes Bos

@wesbos.com

ITS HAPPENING

Firefox 127 shipped today making it the first browser to support Temporal - the new API for working with Dates, times, timezones + durations

May 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM

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Svelte Society

@sveltesociety.dev

Rich Harris' talk from this month's Svelte Summit is now freely available on our YouTube channel. The other videos will follow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dAT...