How to create and publish Svelte components

Samuele
5 min readOct 15, 2021

In my last articles I have mainly talked about how to integrate Svelte, Tailwind, Jest and how to use NPM. Why all this? To get to understand how to create a Svelte component and how to publish it as an NPM package. Below, as is my habit now, I report the various steps I followed and the link to a template that should simplify everything.

Create components with SvelteKit

First of all the technology: SvelteKit. It may seem like a bizarre choice but I think it’s the simplest way. The SvelteKit documentation also has a section dedicated to packaging.

In short, you can take the contents of the src/lib folder and save it as a package. It is also possible to publish it on NPM. In addition, the contents of the main folder can be exported in order to simplify the creation of documentation.

I omit the explanation of how to create a component with SvelteKit and the integration with Jest and TailwindCSS. I’ve written a couple of articles about it:

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Samuele
Samuele

Written by Samuele

I'm a hobby programmer, experimenting with Svelte, Javascript, Construct 3 and magic tools