Rich Harris
Special guest
Creator of Svelte. Graphics editor at the New York Times.
Rich Harris has been a guest on 3 episodes.
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Rich Harris on fine grained reactivity and async first frameworks
February 5th, 2026 | 41 mins 13 secs
reactivity
Rich Harris joins the podcast to discuss his talk, fine-grained everything, exploring fine-grained reactivity, frontend performance, and the real costs of React Server Components and RSC payloads. Rich explains how Svelte and SvelteKit approach co-located data fetching, remote functions, and RPC to reduce server-side rendering costs, improve developer experience, and avoid unnecessary performance overhead on mobile networks. The conversation dives into async rendering, parallel async data fetching, type safety with schema validation, and why async-first frameworks may define the future of JavaScript frameworks and web performance.
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SvelteKit 1.0 with Rich Harris
February 22nd, 2023 | Season 3 | 32 mins 38 secs
sveltekit, vercel
Rich Harris joins us on this episode to talk about SvelteKit 1.0, Vercel, the future, and more!
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Svelte with Rich Harris
October 5th, 2021 | Season 1 | 40 mins 51 secs
frontend development, frontend engineering, javascript, software engineering, svelte, tech, technology, web development
We interview Rich Harris about Svelte's position in the landscape of frameworks, how other popular frameworks are becoming more Svelte-like, how Svelte handles state, how SvelteKit works, and more!