"What's new in Svelte" November newsletter

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+title: What's new in Svelte: November 2020
+description: Slot forwarding fixes, SvelteKit for faster local development, and more from Svelte Summit
+author: Daniel Sandoval
+authorURL: https://desandoval.net
+---
+
+Welcome back to the "What's new in Svelte" series! This month, we're covering new features & bug fixes, last month's Svelte Summit and some stand-out sites and libraries...
+
+## New features & impactful bug fixes
+
+1. Destructuring Promises now works as expected by using the `{#await}` syntax
+ (**3.29.3**, [Example](https://svelte.dev/repl/3fd4e2cecfa14d629961478f1dac2445?version=3.29.3))
+2. Slot forwarding (released in 3.29.0) should no longer hang during compilation (**3.29.3**, [Example](https://svelte.dev/repl/29959e70103f4868a6525c0734934936?version=3.29.3))
+3. Better typings for the `get` function in `svelte/store` and on lifecycle hooks (**3.29.1**)
+
+**What's going on in Sapper?**
+
+Sapper got some new types in its `preload` function, which will make typing easier if you are using TypeScript. See the [Sapper docs](https://sapper.svelte.dev/docs#Typing_the_function) on how to use them. There also were fixes to `preload` links in exported sites. Route layouts got a few fixes too - including ensuring CSS is applied to nested route layouts. You can also better organize your files now that extensions with multiple dots are supported. (**0.28.10**)
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+For all the features and bugfixes see the CHANGELOGs for [Svelte](https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) and [Sapper](https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
+
+
+## [Svelte Summit](https://sveltesummit.com/) was Svelte-tacular!
+- Rich Harris demoed the possible future of Svelte development in a talk titled "Futuristic Web Development". The not-yet-public project is called SvelteKit (name may change) and will bring a first-class developer experience and more flexibility for build outputs. If you want to get the full sneak-peek, [check out the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSfdtmcZ4d0).
+- 17 speakers made the best of the conference's virtual format... From floating heads to seamless demos, Svelte developers from every skill level will find something of interest in this year's [YouTube playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8bMgX1kyZThM1sbYCoWdTcpiYysJsSeu)
+
+---
+
+## Community Showcase
+- [Svelte Lab](https://sveltelab.app/) showcases a variety of components, visualizations and interactions that can be acheived in Svelte. You can click into any component to see its source or edit it, using the site's built-in REPL
+- [svelte-electron-boilerplate](https://github.com/hjalmar/svelte-electron-boilerplate) is a fast way to get up and running with a Svelte app built in the desktop javascript framework, Electron
+- [React Hooks in Svelte](https://github.com/benflap/tabler-icons-svelte) showcases examples of common React Hooks ported to Svelte.
+- [gurlic](https://gurlic.com/) is a social network and internet expirement that is super snappy thanks to Svelte
+- [Interference 2020](https://interference2020.org/) visualizes reported foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. elections. You can learn more about how it was built in [YYY's talk at Svelte Summit]()
+- [jitsi-svelte](https://github.com/relm-us/jitsi-svelte) lets you to easily create your own custom Jitsi client by providing out-of-the-box components built with Svelte
+- [Ellx](https://ellx.io/) is part spreadsheet, part notebook and part IDE. It's super smooth thanks to Svelte 😎
+- [This New Zealand news site](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/election-2020-latest-results-party-vote-electorate-vote-and-full-data/5CFVO4ENKNQDE3SICRRNPU5GZM/) breaks down the results of the 2020 Parliamentary elections using Svelte
+- [Budibase](https://github.com/Budibase/budibase) is a no-code app builder, powered by Svelte
+- [Svelt-yjs](https://github.com/relm-us/svelt-yjs) combines the collaborative, local-first technology of Yjs with the power of Svelte to enable multiple users across the internet to stay in sync.
+- [tabler-icons-svelte](https://github.com/benflap/tabler-icons-svelte) is a Svelte wrapper for over 850 free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for you to use in your web projects.
+
+## See you next month!
+
+Got an idea for something to add to the Showcase? Want to get involved more with Svelte? We're always looking for maintainers, contributors and fanatics... Check out the [Svelte Society](https://sveltesociety.dev/), [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/sveltejs/) and [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/yy75DKs) to get involved!