Discuss general goals and project ideas

[thephilgray]

The stated goal of the project is still very general. Comment on this issue with:

• Subgoals for learning Svelte (goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, and relevant)
• Interesting or common frontend problems (UI, productivity, performance, etc.) and ideas for how we can solve them using Svelte

[knoebelja]

I think we should make some portfolio pieces. And we could use a number of different stacks to target each one. The projects I have in mind are:

• Store (Amazon-lite)
• Forum (4chan/Reddit-lite)

[thephilgray]

@knoebelja, I was thinking the same thing.

[thephilgray]

@knoebelja, also, since there's no popular Svelete component lib, it will be a good opportunity to build up our own from scratch. Do you prefer to start prototyping the app first and then develop components as needed? Or start developing some essential components first?

[thephilgray]

@knoebelja, another thought is we could use this project to showcase our Svelte projects. That way we can keep it relatively simple at first, just building a basic site with a gallery and gallery items using palceholder data for thumbnails/titles/descriptions/links or data from the github api to show ongoing progress; and then we can work on the individual apps as forks of this project (or starting from other templates like the sapper template). I think that would be a good way to build up our basic skills and process and also give each project more leeway with dependencies and build process, especially if they require different backends.

Also, drafting placeholder data and images to use in the showcase could be a good planning exercise for the actual projects, thinking about them declaratively.

[knoebelja]

There are a number of place holder data APIs available free online.

[knoebelja]

We should make a schema for our database/routing/client views.