SvelTeX

Theme

Acknowledgments ​

Like all software, SvelTeX owes an immense debt to prior work. Below I list a small fraction of the works on which SvelTeX relies, focusing on direct dependencies.

All of the software listed below is open-source, available under MIT, GPL, or (in the case of fonts) SIL licences.

Inspiration ​

Without these the project would've had little reason to exist:

  • Svelte: The frontend JS framework for which this project is built.
  • LaTeX: An incredibly powerful typesetting system with a huge ecosystem of packages.
  • PGF/TikZ: An amazing vector graphics language in TeX.

Similar works to SvelTeX, which also inspired it:

  • MDsveX: A great Svelte preprocessor that's become the de facto standard for Svelte Markdown processing.

Libraries ​

Direct dependencies ​

  • micromark: A tiny, very powerful markdown parser. Most of SvelTeX's parsing functionality is powered by micromark.

Indirect dependencies ​

  • dvisvgm: A fantastic tool for converting DVI, PDF, and XDV files to SVG. Bundled with texlive.

    Note: SvelTeX doesn't bundle dvisvgm; it instead spawns child processes that invoke dvisvgm on the user's system if it is available. As such, SvelTeX can be licensed under MIT, despite dvisvgm being GPL. This is my understanding, anyhow.

Development ​

  • Vitest: Unit testing.
  • Playwright: Integration testing.
  • fast-check: Property-based testing (aka. fuzzy testing).
  • Knip: Project linter to find unused files, dependencies and exports.

Site ​

  • VitePress: Great SSG using Vite and Vue to render docs from Markdown.

Syntax highlighting ​

  • Shiki: A beautiful, fast, and feature-rich syntax highlighter.
  • twoslash: Powers the IntelliSense in the code blocks, together with floating-vue.
  • Svelte TextMate grammar by sveltejs/language-tools (MIT) — vendored from upstream and refreshed weekly by the repo's vendor-update workflow. Used to highlight the Svelte snippets in code blocks across the docs site and in the playground editor.

Graphics ​

  • Phosphor icons: A wonderful collection of 1,200+ icons in 6 weights each.

Typography ​

  • Inter: An extremely high-quality sans-serif.
  • Cascadia Code: Microsoft's open-source monospaced family with programming ligatures and a beautiful cursive italic.

And so much more ​

This list could go on and on, but it might become a bit frivolous at some point; after all, backtracking dependencies and intellectual debts is often an endless pursuit.