how much do you use actions (not form actions) in your Svelte/SvelteKit apps? i feel like i really underutilize them, but im curious if everyone else does too - ThreadSky

danawoodman.com • 197 days ago

how much do you use actions (not form actions) in your Svelte/SvelteKit apps?

i feel like i really underutilize them, but im curious if everyone else does too

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hauken.us•196 days ago

I always forget that use:enhance is just a prefab action.
Too often I end up with recursive bind:value to propagate values down the DOM, and should have written it as an action.

Oh well.

afaik.fyi•197 days ago

Bluesky - Confession: I also use them far too rarely

danawoodman.com•196 days ago

this is a safe space. me too

jameschristie.dev•196 days ago

I definitely don't use them as much as I probably should, because when I remember 'oh I have an action for that' I always thank my former self. But I find writing them is a bit of a context shift, and I can never remember the args etc.

danawoodman.com•196 days ago

yeah i too forget they even exist!

glyndwr.io•195 days ago

All the time! I've almost entirely replaced bind:this with actions. Most of the time if I need a js reference to a dom element it's so I can perform some init logic. Might as well keep the logic and reference combined. Stripe elements are a great use case for this.

danawoodman.com•195 days ago

i vow to start using actions more or i'll sell my soul on ebay

techniq.dev•196 days ago

I use them a lot. I have a package “@layerstack/svelte-actions” for various use cases if you want to take a look - https://www.layerstack.dev/

These packages used to be part of Svelte UX but extracted into separate packages for broader usage.

danawoodman.com•196 days ago

👀

ryan.phonicsandstuff.com•196 days ago

I definitely forget they even exist. I guess I never grokked them well enough to feel comfortable using them.

paolo.ricciuti.me•196 days ago

Whenever I need to do something with the element... basically if I start writing a bind:this I generally refactor that to an action

techniq.dev•196 days ago

👆

danawoodman.com•196 days ago

smart criteria!

bertbengtson.bsky.social•196 days ago

My hint for when to use them is if it only happens on client and doesn’t need SSR it is usually best an action.

For example I’ll shamelessly plug my phone number formatter I recently wrote. It only needs to format in response to the user typing. So action fits well

https://gist.github.com/bertybot/02470d3b2e0fbfb5c0e2a4fab7689b0f

danawoodman.com•196 days ago

nice!

bertbengtson.bsky.social•196 days ago

I’ve recently come to a revelation of how much I have underutilized them. Mostly from migrating to svelte 5. Most of my effect calls were from doing stuff with element that were easily replaced with an action.

More efficient and reusable too!

danawoodman.com•196 days ago

yeah i need to really start using them more too